“When we saw what was going on there, some members of our teams puked. Parts … fragments of bodies were scattered on the ground, hung in the trees. I can’t convey to you what I felt in that moment … “(Eco Sulistier, climber, member of the group rescue volunteers). May 9, 2012 Russian experimental aircraft Sukhoi Superjet 100 departed from Jakarta airport in an experimental flight. Aboard there were 45 people. Exactly 21 minutes after departure the airliner disappeared from the radar screens … 
Photos from open sources After 19 hours of continuous searches the most terrible assumptions were justified: according to unexplained so far reasons, the plane crashed at peak Salak at high speed 2200 meters. By the huge scar on the mountain’s body left fuselage of the liner, it was clear that the pilot at the last moment tried raise the car higher, but he failed. The remains of a crumbling when hitting pieces of the plane, they crashed into a piedmont gorge to a depth about 450 meters. There were also black boxes and bodies, or rather – fragments of the bodies of dead passengers and pilots. In a plane crash not no one survived. The first to arrive at the crash site were the Indonesian marine foot soldiers, immediately after them – our rescuers of the Ministry of Emergencies. The soldiers could not go down into the gorge – they didn’t have the right one for this outfit. Downhill went professional climbers. That they saw there, will remain in their memory until the end of life … 
Photos from open sources May 21 rescue operation ended. True, it can only be called “rescue” conditionally: from the gorge were raised the remains of all victims of the disaster, separate parts of the plane and one of the black boxes. The second one disappeared somewhere in the jungle. Now it remains to find out the cause of the accident.
Accident or “machinations of enemies”?
Versions according to which disaster could follow, enough. One of them is the mistake of the pilots. During the crash of the liner dense fog stood over Salak, and the pilot of the aircraft test pilot Yablontsev asked to allow him to decline from three to 1.8 thousand meters to “dive” under the oncoming thunder front, and the local the dispatcher allowed the maneuver. Eight seconds later the plane is at speed more than 400 km / h crashed into the western slope of the mountain. In the liner stood Earth warning early warning system, but for some reason didn’t work. There is an assumption that the pilots themselves disabled it by unknown reason. There is a version that implies “machinations of enemies.” The Halim base with which Sukhoi took off is the place where US special forces teaches its Indonesian colleagues various means of dealing with by airplanes. This includes interference with radio navigation systems and other means of electronic warfare. It is possible that the liner has become a victim of such “teachings.”
Strange grave
And locals believe that the plane crashed in a completely different way. reason – supernatural. Mount Salak is a mystical place, Indonesians are trying to avoid him. Some soldiers Marines, the first to go in search of the remains of the aircraft, claim to have heard strange voices in the thicket of the jungle. Here literally behind you, someone is talking, and you turn around – there is not anyone. This circumstance did not add confidence to them.
Old people say that on the mountain there is a sacred grave of black the sorcerer. A man should not even come close to her, but the Russians do not believe in all this mysticism, that’s why misfortune happened.
A photo from open sources
It is difficult to judge which version is closest to the truth. Decryption of black boxes will clarify a lot. So far, only add that the Sukhoi Superjet 100 is not the first mountain victim. Shortly before this disaster, three people died in a crash. training aircraft near the village of Sibunar at the northeast peak Salak.
In June 2008, the Indonesian Air Force crashed there, 18 soldiers were killed. Similar accidents occurred in April. 2004 (two people became victims), June 2004 (five victims), October 2003 (seven victims) and October 2002 (died one man). Mount Salak regularly collects a bloody tribute.
Igor NIKITIN
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