Russian aircraft in Antarctica shot down an unidentified flying object
35 years ago, in January 1979, the Soviet aircraft crashed in Antarctica for the first time in the history of the development of the White Continent.After a long investigation, the cause of the disaster was classified, and the tragedy was quickly forgotten.
Only a couple of phrases were reported in the program "Time": the crew of Vladimir ZAVARZIN was crashed in the area of the Soviet Antarctic station "Molodezhnaya". Of the five crew members, there was only one left alive - navigator Alexander Kostikov.
"We arrived in Antarctica on December 18th." In the Southern Hemisphere there was a polar summer: minus 35 and a wind bouncing off, so as not to be demolished, moved around, holding on to the ropes stretched between the buildings. On the 22nd our airplane overflew and withdrew from the ice captivity the ship Fujim, which carried the cargo to the Japanese station, in Antarctica it is customary to help each other. We would know that very soon we will need help!
... To wave for six months in Antarctica, 24-year-old Sashka Kostikov was offered the commander of the crew, with whom he flew in a navigator in Siberia. A graduate of the Moscow Polytechnic Polytechnic has already worked at serious points. On Novaya Zemlya participated in nuclear tests, conducted geophysical reconnaissance in Spitsbergen, in Central Asia, at BAM. But hearing the words of the commander, Sashka began to doubt: his wife Natasha was waiting for the child. And then he waved his hand: "I'm going!" - I wanted to test myself under extreme conditions, and at the same time earn extra money.
The New Year was greeted by a friendly company. We went to the bath, sat down at the table. When, two days later, a catastrophe occurred, the commission members kept asking, and whether the crew was drunk. But what kind of drunk - on the holiday polar explorers relied bottle of vodka on five, and from it you will not get drunk. As a cultural program, the movie "A Dawns Here Are Quiet" was staged - peasants torn from the house, 15 times they reconsidered the scene where the girls are washed in a bath.
Having fallen asleep, the crew began to gather for the task. There was a 10-hour flight, the tanks were flooded.
The sky was frowning that day, but the weather was quite normal. All who at this time was close to the airfield, noted: the plane was long and heavily dispersed - the runway was going up the hill. Finally I broke away, and when I climbed to a height of 30 meters, a huge snow-vortex column rose from the ground along its course. The ascending air flow was so strong that the plane instantly stood on its wing and collapsed.
Commander Volodya Zavarzin died instantly - he hit his head on the "horn" of the helm. Bortmehanik Viktor Shalnov fell to the central control panel and died in a cross-country vehicle on the way to the station. The second pilot, Yuri Kozlov, was thrown on the steering column, he died a few hours after the disaster. Bortradist Garif Uzikayev was taken to the medical unit in a critical condition. He was crumpled half a face, the radio station that fell on him broke through his chest. The co-driver Kostikov was dragged from the twisted salon last - the last, as the pilots say. The head is covered in blood, broken legs. Everyone thought, also not a tenant.
Recruitment in New Zealand
About a tragic incident on the "Youth" reported to Moscow. Immediately at an emergency meeting of the Politburo, it was decided to take the wounded - Kostikov and Uzikayev - to New Zealand. The aircraft was provided by the Americans for transportation: the Hercules C-130 was equipped with skids for take-off from the snowy airfield and wheels for landing in the subtropics. Ten hours later, the plane landed at an airfield near the hospital in Dunedin.
- I open my eyes - in front of me is a very full, dark-skinned woman, - San Sanych recalls. - I was frightened and said: "Am I in Africa?"
Care for Soviet polar explorers was magnificent - the maintenance of victims in hospital cost in $ 100 a day. But Uzikayev could not be saved, Kostikov was to spend almost two months there and sustain five operations. The jaw was collected in pieces, the bones of the orbit were restored, just like a puzzle. In the thigh of one leg a pin was inserted, the other was plastered.
Only a couple of phrases were reported in the program "Time": the crew of Vladimir ZAVARZIN was crashed in the area of the Soviet Antarctic station "Molodezhnaya". Of the five crew members, there was only one left alive - navigator Alexander Kostikov.
Alexander Alexandrovich Kostikov himself called the editorial office of the Express-newspaper and offered to meet - he decided to share everything that has become painful over the past years. He asked me to call myself simply - San Sanych. A large 59-year-old man, with a heavy gait and traces of scars on his face. Then, in January 1979, none of those who came to the crashed from the 30-meter height of the IL-14 could believe that inside someone survived.
"We arrived in Antarctica on December 18th." In the Southern Hemisphere there was a polar summer: minus 35 and a wind bouncing off, so as not to be demolished, moved around, holding on to the ropes stretched between the buildings. On the 22nd our airplane overflew and withdrew from the ice captivity the ship Fujim, which carried the cargo to the Japanese station, in Antarctica it is customary to help each other. We would know that very soon we will need help!
... To wave for six months in Antarctica, 24-year-old Sashka Kostikov was offered the commander of the crew, with whom he flew in a navigator in Siberia. A graduate of the Moscow Polytechnic Polytechnic has already worked at serious points. On Novaya Zemlya participated in nuclear tests, conducted geophysical reconnaissance in Spitsbergen, in Central Asia, at BAM. But hearing the words of the commander, Sashka began to doubt: his wife Natasha was waiting for the child. And then he waved his hand: "I'm going!" - I wanted to test myself under extreme conditions, and at the same time earn extra money.
The New Year was greeted by a friendly company. We went to the bath, sat down at the table. When, two days later, a catastrophe occurred, the commission members kept asking, and whether the crew was drunk. But what kind of drunk - on the holiday polar explorers relied bottle of vodka on five, and from it you will not get drunk. As a cultural program, the movie "A Dawns Here Are Quiet" was staged - peasants torn from the house, 15 times they reconsidered the scene where the girls are washed in a bath.
Having fallen asleep, the crew began to gather for the task. There was a 10-hour flight, the tanks were flooded.
The sky was frowning that day, but the weather was quite normal. All who at this time was close to the airfield, noted: the plane was long and heavily dispersed - the runway was going up the hill. Finally I broke away, and when I climbed to a height of 30 meters, a huge snow-vortex column rose from the ground along its course. The ascending air flow was so strong that the plane instantly stood on its wing and collapsed.
Commander Volodya Zavarzin died instantly - he hit his head on the "horn" of the helm. Bortmehanik Viktor Shalnov fell to the central control panel and died in a cross-country vehicle on the way to the station. The second pilot, Yuri Kozlov, was thrown on the steering column, he died a few hours after the disaster. Bortradist Garif Uzikayev was taken to the medical unit in a critical condition. He was crumpled half a face, the radio station that fell on him broke through his chest. The co-driver Kostikov was dragged from the twisted salon last - the last, as the pilots say. The head is covered in blood, broken legs. Everyone thought, also not a tenant.
Recruitment in New Zealand
About a tragic incident on the "Youth" reported to Moscow. Immediately at an emergency meeting of the Politburo, it was decided to take the wounded - Kostikov and Uzikayev - to New Zealand. The aircraft was provided by the Americans for transportation: the Hercules C-130 was equipped with skids for take-off from the snowy airfield and wheels for landing in the subtropics. Ten hours later, the plane landed at an airfield near the hospital in Dunedin.
- I open my eyes - in front of me is a very full, dark-skinned woman, - San Sanych recalls. - I was frightened and said: "Am I in Africa?"
Care for Soviet polar explorers was magnificent - the maintenance of victims in hospital cost in $ 100 a day. But Uzikayev could not be saved, Kostikov was to spend almost two months there and sustain five operations. The jaw was collected in pieces, the bones of the orbit were restored, just like a puzzle. In the thigh of one leg a pin was inserted, the other was plastered.
... collapsed a few minutes after take-off
- What happened at the "Youth", I remembered vaguely, - says Kostikov. People who came to him in the hospital, he did not even know what to tell. And the proposal to stay in New Zealand was refused. After all, his pregnant wife was waiting for him at home.
Before leaving the hospital staff bought him a gift of children's things, and on February 22, 1979 he returned to Moscow. At home it turned out that the tragedy in Antarctica should not be remembered. A couple of times Kostikov was visited by members of the commission of inquiry, clarified the circumstances of the crew's death. But they did not offer any help. He was hinted: it would be better if he remained forever with his comrades in Antarctica. Near the place of their death the polar explorers installed an obelisk made of white marble, and in the Don cemetery in Moscow, where the capsules were buried with soil from the place of tragedy, a stele appeared in memory of the brave conquerors of the South Pole.
Before leaving the hospital staff bought him a gift of children's things, and on February 22, 1979 he returned to Moscow. At home it turned out that the tragedy in Antarctica should not be remembered. A couple of times Kostikov was visited by members of the commission of inquiry, clarified the circumstances of the crew's death. But they did not offer any help. He was hinted: it would be better if he remained forever with his comrades in Antarctica. Near the place of their death the polar explorers installed an obelisk made of white marble, and in the Don cemetery in Moscow, where the capsules were buried with soil from the place of tragedy, a stele appeared in memory of the brave conquerors of the South Pole.
The pilots were buried near the disaster site
Secret Investigation
The commission of inquiry has established: the crew of Zavarzin has acted competently. But what happened on January 2, 1979? Specialists put forward a version: the aircraft picked up the wind that suddenly changed its force, speed and direction, which happens in local latitudes, but for sure it is not known. The case was classified, and Kostikov was signed on non-disclosure. He then did not understand what he could disclose.
Only in the late 90's, having met with the guys who were in those days on the "Youth" guys, I heard the abbreviation of UFO and the story that his plane collided with the soaring "plate". By the time, by the way, the polar explorers already had an international term for such incidents: the crew "caught" Antarctica. The mysterious power that many expeditions had to face is devastating and inexplicable.
Secret war with aliens
Julian Assange promised to publicize documents about clashes between the US military and aliens in Antarctica.According to the founder of Wikileaks, one of the incidents occurred on June 10, 2004. The command of the military space forces announced an alarm signal in connection with the emergence of a UFO fleet that had flown into the air from the bottom of the southern seas in Antarctica. Dozens of unknown objects were sent to Mexico.
The US raised fighters in the sky and activated all air defense systems. After this, the "plates" plunged to the bottom of the ocean. Experts say that an immediate threat to UFOs is created when they arise from underwater, resulting in waves that can interfere with ocean traffic and flood cargo and other vessels. This is precisely what the specialists explain a number of recent shipwrecks.
Missing Expedition
The most mysterious episode in the study of Antarctica is the collapse in 1947 of a scientific expedition of the US Navy under the command of Rear Admiral Richard BERDA. This famous polar explorer in 1929 first flew over the South Pole and returned with an amazing story, almost repeating Obruchev's Plutonium. The Byrd aircraft on its way to the pole allegedly penetrated through the "hole" into the inner part of the planet, where it was met and taken back by some flying machines.
He was publicly ridiculed, but in 1946 he was appointed the head of a very strange, but the largest in the history of the expedition to Antarctica. Byrdou, who was personally supervised by Defense Minister James Forrestal, was handed over to the colossal naval forces. The Armada included aircraft carriers, cruisers, support ships, tankers, submarines.
Everything went according to plan, tens of thousands of aerial photographs were made. But suddenly two months later, in February 1947, the expedition, calculated for six months, hastily leaves the coast of Antarctica. Upon his return, Byrd appears before the members of the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry. He reports on the attack of "flying saucers", which "... emerged from under the water and, moving with great speed, caused considerable damage to the expedition". Part of the armada from that "scientific expedition" really did not return, the ships just quietly disappeared from the Navy register.
The work of the investigative commission after the first meeting was classified. Minister Forrestal and Admiral Baird with the diagnosis of "depression" was placed in a carefully guarded psychiatric clinic. A year later, the minister "fell out" from the window of the ward, and Byrd was discharged. Soon he died in a dream of a heart attack at home.
The commission of inquiry has established: the crew of Zavarzin has acted competently. But what happened on January 2, 1979? Specialists put forward a version: the aircraft picked up the wind that suddenly changed its force, speed and direction, which happens in local latitudes, but for sure it is not known. The case was classified, and Kostikov was signed on non-disclosure. He then did not understand what he could disclose.
Only in the late 90's, having met with the guys who were in those days on the "Youth" guys, I heard the abbreviation of UFO and the story that his plane collided with the soaring "plate". By the time, by the way, the polar explorers already had an international term for such incidents: the crew "caught" Antarctica. The mysterious power that many expeditions had to face is devastating and inexplicable.
Secret war with aliens
Julian Assange promised to publicize documents about clashes between the US military and aliens in Antarctica.According to the founder of Wikileaks, one of the incidents occurred on June 10, 2004. The command of the military space forces announced an alarm signal in connection with the emergence of a UFO fleet that had flown into the air from the bottom of the southern seas in Antarctica. Dozens of unknown objects were sent to Mexico.
The US raised fighters in the sky and activated all air defense systems. After this, the "plates" plunged to the bottom of the ocean. Experts say that an immediate threat to UFOs is created when they arise from underwater, resulting in waves that can interfere with ocean traffic and flood cargo and other vessels. This is precisely what the specialists explain a number of recent shipwrecks.
Missing Expedition
The most mysterious episode in the study of Antarctica is the collapse in 1947 of a scientific expedition of the US Navy under the command of Rear Admiral Richard BERDA. This famous polar explorer in 1929 first flew over the South Pole and returned with an amazing story, almost repeating Obruchev's Plutonium. The Byrd aircraft on its way to the pole allegedly penetrated through the "hole" into the inner part of the planet, where it was met and taken back by some flying machines.
He was publicly ridiculed, but in 1946 he was appointed the head of a very strange, but the largest in the history of the expedition to Antarctica. Byrdou, who was personally supervised by Defense Minister James Forrestal, was handed over to the colossal naval forces. The Armada included aircraft carriers, cruisers, support ships, tankers, submarines.
Everything went according to plan, tens of thousands of aerial photographs were made. But suddenly two months later, in February 1947, the expedition, calculated for six months, hastily leaves the coast of Antarctica. Upon his return, Byrd appears before the members of the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry. He reports on the attack of "flying saucers", which "... emerged from under the water and, moving with great speed, caused considerable damage to the expedition". Part of the armada from that "scientific expedition" really did not return, the ships just quietly disappeared from the Navy register.
The work of the investigative commission after the first meeting was classified. Minister Forrestal and Admiral Baird with the diagnosis of "depression" was placed in a carefully guarded psychiatric clinic. A year later, the minister "fell out" from the window of the ward, and Byrd was discharged. Soon he died in a dream of a heart attack at home.
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