British military aircraft almost crashed over the Black Sea due to a jammed camera – BBC

The real drama, which nearly ended in disaster with the death of more than two hundred people turned around in the sky over the Black Sea in February 2014. It became known from the materials of the claim that the UK Ministry of Defence to have filed nine soldiers and one civilian employee, became the ill-fated passengers voyage

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on that day (the exact date is not reported) was a British military aircraft Voyager performed a scheduled flight from the UK to Afghanistan at an altitude of 11 kilometers, when being over the Black sea, he suddenly became . literally fall down

While uncontrollable decline continued, the plane managed to lose one and a half kilometer height

The aircraft Voyager -. multi-purpose military version of the civilian widebody airliner Airbus A330-200, which can be used either as an air refueling tanker, either as a transport aircraft. Thus, the internal aircraft space can be converted to carry 380 troops.

On the day on board the plane were almost two hundred people, and, when the fall, many of the passengers and crew were literally thrown out of their seats to the ceiling. According to the Sunday Times, the lawyer representing the interests of the ten victims, said that clients after the incident was diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder

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it is known that the commander of the ship, whose name is not called, will stand trial in February 2017 on charges of perjury and negligent performance of duties. It turned out that the reason for the refusal of management has become a personal camera is the Nikon, which the aircraft commander (FAC) took with him on board for out of the cab of photographing.

Due to the negligence of the master camera accidentally hit between the armrest and the side of the control handle and blocked its progress.

As a result, the plane began to fall down stone with a maximum rate of descent of more than five kilometers per minute, due to which passengers and crew literally began to fly through the cabin. The co-pilot at this moment was out of the cockpit and the aircraft acceleration was also in weightlessness.

Somehow he managed to crawl into the cockpit and regain control of the car, resting his foot in ceiling.

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crash lasted 27 seconds, until the crew is not It managed to regain control over the management. 33 people in the incident were injured, but some psychological problems remained to this day. Among them – the anxiety, depression and fear of airplanes. Lawyers defending the ten plaintiffs – eight men and two women, speaking lawyer law firm Bolt Burdon Kemp Rich Kapila. It is known that the three plaintiffs had to resign from the army after the February incident. “Someone at the time thought that the plane was shot down over Afghanistan – said the lawyer. – Personal items thrown into the tail of the aircraft, the passengers were screaming and crying, they do not want to die. It was a state of chaos and fear. »

Many of the passengers later again and again experienced the terrifying memories, nightmares, with differences of mood problems, insomnia, and even began to stutter,” that has affected not only their military service but also on the relationship “in society, explained the lawyer.

in an earlier published report stated that in three to five minutes before the incident commander made 28 shots from the cockpit, he did so after four hours of flight on the way at Camp Bastion – the main British military base in Afghanistan

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Specifies that all happened while driving seat ahead of the pilot, which led to a jam cameras.

The report recognized that the placement of the camera between the armrest and saydstika be dangerous and there was a real threat of a “loss of the aircraft and 198 people.” According to military sources, the newspaper, the British pilots still do not take the banned cameras in the cab, it is only advised to use their “common sense».

seems that the problem of foreign objects in the cockpit, blocking management bodies, becomes a real threat to the aircraft. In April, “Times» told , because of a misstep pilots in Afghanistan crashed Hercules transport aircraft the US Air Force. The car, myself and several others killed American “colleague” of the British pilot guessed insert case of night vision goggles between the steering wheel and dashboard.