there was an hour to you live from moscow at nine thirty am moscow time course these are the headlines a sickness in society or a sickness in the system as u.k. authorities mop up the aftermath of the riots locals ask if the government can break down the crime inciting social vacuum it helped create downing street is blaming gang inspire violence for the young rust. paranoid and compared with its economy teetering on the brink american stock up on food supplies radios and guns

to get them from doomsday rich growing numbers believe could be right around the corner some fear the government may collapse leaving them no choice but to stand for themselves. and ethnic serbs in northern kosovo say they live in fear of having their land and property taken as tensions remain high following weeks of violence near the border between serbia and kosovo amounted after consuming police took control of two disputed crossings. now in our spotlight hosts are going over talk to the pilot heroes to save everyone on board an airliner left without any power ten thousand meters above siberia about a year ago that's next. the.

world will be. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realms of russia. we've got the future covered. hello again a welcome to spotlight the interview on r.t. i'm now going off and you will hear a miraculous crash landing starting. in september a russian tupolev one fifty four aircraft with failed flight control navigation radio communication systems made an emergency landing at the band an airstrip in the middle of the thai got its crew managed to save all the seventy two passengers

on board president medvedev has ordered the pilots as heroes russia and decorated the other crew members with the order of courage today and spotlight they will tell us the dramatic story and details here are the captain of the aircraft crew and the navigators he gave you know myself and sergei how long life. you've been in the high school it has been flying the well known route between moscow and this mall town in precious no luck for several years but you were in one plight an unexpected electricity supply failure put everyone aboard on the edge of survival the team guided by captain you again and i still managed. what seemed impossible they landed the plane so that airfield. did vehicle after the navigator that i saw the whole crew no surprise that it was he who first spotted the bandit stripped lost in the tie got the president decorated the team was data

words the captain became russia and the navigator a member of the one. thanks so much for coming to our program and congratulations on your well deserved awards thank you. want all your friends and relatives most of us to this when you were landing that airplane did you feel really scared you're quite experienced people. nevertheless were you afraid. i was scared at one point only. scared but it felt as if something was missing in the russians. the moment the few low lights ones on the countdown began. after that moment was that we couldn't carry on the flight as we had intended earlier. on that moment we had to make an

urgent decision so you were going to fly somewhere well let's go back to feeling afraid i felt fear a couple of times but it got suppressed immediately. when an individual is busy doing things his fear gets suppressed i heard of the kind of fear that constrains one's notions and limbs but that's not what we felt you just have to overcome it as we were busy piloting this fear was receiving i felt really scared only once when we landed and ran into the forest but we'll get to that that's when i felt somewhat scared but not while still in the air. right here not accustomed to. flying through the forests. of events were unfolding as follows. why it was taking place as usual at the altitude of ten thousand six hundred meters or the ship is that we made a trip from moscow to pull out an a and we were on our way back nothing indicated

what was going to happen so when our equipment started failing gradually at first we decided to descend to a certain altitude and to continue the flight as it was all cloudy below the plane so our intention at first was to reach a cloudless area for the better visibility. to determine our exact location and decide whether we should head for the nearest airport it wouldn't be me but things changed when the fuel low light went on as a gay said so we realized we had only thirteen minutes left to do why. then would run out of fuel and angels would stop and that would be it so we had no other option but to get under the clouds so we can see terrain and start looking for a landing place. now let's take a look at how today's guests worked their miracle landing

a plane with failed fry control here's this report from spotlights elana to me the . tupolev airliner with eighty one people on board was on its way from russia's far east to moscow cruising at thirty thousand feet it's electrical system failed the policy to do some quick thinking and find somewhere to land in the vastness of the russian wilderness as it descended there was no way to slow we down using ad breaks and the well of tricity to the flight controls and get to that in no way due to cold for how near a curiously they saw an abandoned air filled with a concrete tron way that had been used by how to cope just too sure thing. liner it was their only chance and they too could land in this town. on the runway into the forest cutting down trees as it slowed. down when the wind india bow down in

a marsh none of the seventy two passengers and nine crew members were hurt in the crash landing. what was the response of the pilot cabin staff when the flight engineer reported that the equipment failed you said that it started failing gradually or did it fail immediately as positional. this was before the flight engineer made his first report that would like to know that aircraft could go that it was light levels in the automatic mode it was a pilot is going to syria has been pilots monitor the process of those he's wanted so the first thing that happened was or to apologize turning off and andre and i so wished to manual control and then the white engineer began recording that equipment started failing because that's when everything began. did you eventually realize what happened i think something went wrong with the battery that's according to the

commission. about it only when do you know now that oh yes we do could you tell us about it two other audience you know what caused the entire electric system of an aircraft to fail according to preliminary conclusion of the state commission the airplane's first and second battery as experienced thermal runaway. bride viewers we need to mention that there are four batteries on a plane the first and second battery experienced thermal runaway as for what is so typical with much of this process hasn't been mushed researched by science but all car owners know what world batteries are going to. get whether that's when all of a sudden the batteries. temperature jumps up and the battery goes out of water plus the body is liquid vapors in a car this process isn't dangerous it just stops operating and that's it. but when

thermal runaway happens on a plane it produces very dangerous a crude fumes. did you manage to contact anyone on the ground when the plane ran out of the city so to say was there any way to get in touch with the ground. we had an emergency radio already fifty five was it working it was working so that the ground search service were located at a landing because that's what it's intended for you to use it to contact ground it works as a beacon only when it's on helicopters can take the bearings and locate it. could use your cell phone will make calls from our cell phones immediately that wasn't ground but it didn't work in the air or right snoring three cells in airports be a cell phone start working about one kilometer above ground maybe. that'll time it wasn't authorized to pick up a phone and make a call. accordingly you didn't have any communication with the airfield here when she landed on they just saw you where no communication period no channels but they

saw you and realized you were going to land we were the ones who saw and realized that we were go into land what about then there are no ground services in that airport but so was there service old nick of was there live chief right there because she saw take off and he saw us in the. let's go back to the thermal runaway issue just how likely are such things to occur here i've never heard about it happening so unexpectedly and with such serious consequences does this mean it can happen again. yes it can happen and you know once again let me stress that this process but he hasn't been properly researched illustrated. thermal runaway can be a gradual or sudden wave like which is related to temperature rise inside the battery . could you explain about this a few low lights. just to cough with quite

a lot of few in wing fuel tanks so the light went on q you knew you had to know if you look. well let me remind you that our rectifies fails much of the first and second batteries failed with it it will come along and because of their failure there wasn't enough power to enable fuel pumps to transfer fuel from wing tanks to the supply tank that feeds the engines. thus the pumps stopped and the supply a tank columns you can easily driven they only work when engines work. comparing to cars again you have gas in the carburetor only exactly and there wasn't much gas there either sygate tell something so your plane ran out of the even though the engine was still running how did you steer then when all the wing flaps and so on are power operated or are there manual control rods as well.

i guess it could be possible but the thing is that angels from a ronnie and plane was a video into manual control and steering at that point nothing really terrible was happening yet engines were running and the plane was under control even though there was no electricity and no radio control and numerous devices including old you'd gorge were out of order and when the fuel low light went on when we reached the cloud free area and spotted that concrete runway at that point we had to slow down by engaging wing flaps and slats. and that didn't happen neither in automatic nor in manual mode i mean you only could do was extend landing gear by means. all of the secondary mergence the hydraulic system the entire flight took place with clean wings at high speeds and you landed with clean wings to exactly that's why it was so difficult to check well we had no other options moreover you had tanks full

of fuel they were half full actually say he never saw all of the captain of the two for this one fifty four which made it crash landing in the coming public and navigators of that flight sim give tell a lie of this also in our studio for flight will be back shortly so we take a break so stay with us we'll continue in the last ten minutes. download the official t. allocation q i phone the i pod touch from the i choose i'm still. life on the go. video on demand keys mind bold colors and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. mission.

call. her the mission free couldn't take should free zones for charges free. range month free. three stooges free. zone free blog just plug in video for your media projects for free media and on to our t. dot com. her. dad. welcome back to the spotlight i'm al gore and often just a little more into that my guests in the studio today are you gaining the rest of hear it rush out and the cat out of the two believe one fifty four which made a crash landing in the common republican think summer and also white navigator that

are that aircraft city how and who was awarded ordered coverage so. again my question is to you if gainey has explained several times that's not to the emergency cropped up you managed to descend through the clouds and were only able to find your bearings by sites that the more clogged that there was no low cloud cover so that you could navigate your plane with the map and by terrain sights i mean. there were many factors that helped us to land it was daytime most nights there were no mountains. which we had just passed northern europe. it was the distance between the land and the lower claudette's along the six hundred meters. so that's how we pierce the clouds and started looking for a place to land. it was we again had luck in the east coast of the river spit.

initially under run for that spits because we didn't see any runways around. but as we began heading for it. i want to start this whole in our lending we were told by the locals that this pit has been used as a dirty filled as well on the outskirts. and even that was fortunate for us. so as we headed for the splits we sighted that village called. and i suggest that the crew that we are somewhat to the right so that the villages might see us and quickly call rescue services to help our passengers with a. little. but as the guys got down to pilot in the plane. i was turning my head left and right. on the off chance that something else might turn out. and then i clearly saw a runway. and then you saw the runway it was straight and even as a road. like a real highway one has gotten

a tiger in the forest next to the village of an amazing country it was the soviet union how many air filters built. thank god. they're still chief had been looking out for their own way all the time clear and that incidentally do you know that a hero of the age or hero of russian again and so boy says the same thing he said in one of his interviews that the pilots would have been unable to save the passengers had it not been for that man who hadn't let anyone wound up all the soviets runway you call him a real officer and a real patriot do you agree do you agree that heals who deserves to be decorated so yes in fact in essence all those years he performed his duty like you did although no one seemed to need him to do that but it came in handy after all. in fact i believe that if he is the real hero because he was quite free not to look after

that congress street at all it's just after in ninety ninety seven the local airlines stopped flying their smaller craft like this and twenty four and yak forty helicopter pad was organized on that runway where medical helicopters touched down from time to time and that man saw it as a point of warning to maintain the runway in order he's a real every eight or so he went on tending the runway he didn't let anyone use it for outside purposes now the mushroom hunters vehicles were allowed in nor any other heavy equipment business people that cock timber in that area for expert to. an awfully good money to be committed to stockpile timbered on the runway to earn money yes but he declined all offers he said this trip should stay free in case an aircraft game night was needed again and so it was. the story of some glass

of water that you used in order to get a pilot your plane we were talking about vehicles but personally i heard the glass of water pail in connection with the rolls royce when you buy a rolls royce he plays a glass of water inside and drive the car they did mph over the water isn't skilled it means the assembly is good. it's pretty much the same with air craft. there shouldn't be any spilled water. which. in fact the glass of water also standing on the ends it. did in fact years ago as the water. in fact we could show if we had a full glass of water. you have a level surface and you put a glass of water on it the water spills out when you tilt the plane to one side or another water in the glass tilts as well so used to find the horizon. we use that as a horizon indicator as we were piercing clouds not landing. let me explain something

people in journalists asked many questions then i'd like to explain it once again no one landed a plane with the help of that glass of water we didn't get it while we were in the air it all began as we started climbing down the flying engineer to down that glass and it came to my head how thoughtful it was of him to offer a drink of water to the crew but then i recalled that it was an old trip from an era when aircraft had no horizon indicators if you were in the clouds a glass of water was used in order to prevent your craft from turning over in the air and to keep it on an even needle but none of us really looked at the glass big . as the laws of physics are different and sound big more nail lies flying at high speeds. you mean centrifugal forces in operation yes the only thing as again use that is that an indicator of a soft and successful landing was the fact that the water was still firmly in his receptacle as the plane touched down on that runway and after it stopped so how

many attempts did it take you to land the plane. for a tense circling on purpose in order to better see where you were going to land or was it because your first attempts failed someone actually as i said the mechanisms were not working and the speed was high with. this type of plane cannot land had such a high speed. but how much did it exceed the speed needed for landing by a hundred was your landing speed two hundred seventy kilometers per hour what was your landing speed a dark moment four hundred and later three hundred eighty one this is why it was a visual flight and a visual maneuver during our first and second attempts we just failed to fit in into the runway alignment during the third attempt we decided would fly over the runway and see whether it was free. com pass it was still operational and we marked a tentative landing course which we saw on the street was clear and braced up for

the touchdown the fourth attempt was a success. so tell me can you say you were lucky to be flying the specific model t. you want five four is there anything about his design that's helped you land it successfully i'd like to say once again the this particular plane saved our lives with this specific plane yes precisely this model it's very reliable though obsolete how old is it a model study oh well the smart plan stop turning out these i crafts as late as two thousand and eight yes it's an obsolete model but it's some thirty. years old isn't it yes its first regular fly took place in nineteen seventy two forty years yeah forty years to is just obsolete it has three engines it consumes more fuel than foreign made aircraft but the plane is highly reliable situations like the one we face to come very rarely nothing like this is going to happen any more but it has

some very sturdy schatz's nothing in the riding gear broke no nothing in a landing gear broke. no nothing broke as we plow through the woods it's a reliable plane and if you act with determination it follows your orders very well . i'd like you to comment on the latest tragic air accident involving a polish plane that crashed near smolensk surely you've heard about it and read a lot about it as you see it what prevented the polish crew from making a safe landing at that time. it seems to me the crew was nervous because the entire government and the country's president were and would the plane. what they should have done was to avoid landing on that particular airfield. so you should have diverted they should have taken the risk

that it to land on a reserve airfield and save lives very interesting all the mechanisms were operative the plane had been checked and tested time and again by contrast none of your back and has since were functioning but you enjoyed good visibility while they were in the fog where their flight conditions worse than yours even with the functioning instruments sure they had form go around but the instruments were in good order but they shouldn't have made any landing attempts just today the instructions they'd say issued hand for reserve and fields you know what i mean is that to land the plane with the electric system being out of order in conditions of clear visibility is easier than to land an operating plane and think fog. it depends on how you understand it. better to fund a reserve airfield. right there are standards of weather requirements and crew preparation. a crew on a particular working plane in fake fog got killed and killed the passengers even

though no matter what advances of technology maybe they can replace a q nine hand yes and in this case it means that the plane was the energizer all of the equipment was out of order but all the same the crew landed the plane successfully let's make another comparison as a well known story to last year they landed a plane on the hudson river which situation was more complicated there are yours what do you think we were not there i can't say what's your idea about what's better water or forests i think both situations are very complicated i had my award the captain did there i think he's a great professional musician it's hard to land on the water surface because in case of a swing the plane will break into pieces award show some of the wings will be torn off but he had all the equipment working fine landed calmly said he would have notable but the engines did not work. the landing was successful and i

admire the job it was my last question is will your plane fly again i think that it should saw it will you fly again on it. you're not supposed to shoot snow thank you so much good luck thank you for participation thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today is getting the buy sell a few of russia and captain are the tupolev one fifty four which made a crash landing in the comair public sector and also the flight out to get rid of the same crew city tell a lie was awarded and ordered off. and that's it for now for all of us here will be back with more first time comments are once going on. in and outside pressure on so many stations i see and take just a few to. come up. plenty perfectly suited.

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