Tu-154 Russian Defense Ministry, which crashed into the Black Sea en route to Syria, could crash due to overloading. The crew did not know about the exceeding of the normative weight of the aircraft, experts found out, who are investigating the plane crash, writes "Newspaper. RU".
When the plane took off from the military airfield Chkalovsky near Moscow, its weight was 99.
6 tons, including 24 tons of fuel. In Adler, the plane was refilled, resulting in a weight of about 110 tons instead of the standard 98.
"If the commander of the crew knew about excess of the standard take-off weight by more than 10 tons, he would either refuse the flight, or fly off taking into account that the aircraft is overloaded," it was informed..
Earlier, various other versions of the plane's fall were considered, one of the main ones was the pilot's error.