The reason for the catastrophe of the plane of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which was sent to a military airbase in Syria, was the loss of spatial orientation by the captain of the Tu-154 Roman Volkov.

This is reported by "Tape. Ru "referring to military sources.

"The cause of the disaster was a violation of the spatial orientation of the commander of the aircraft, which led to his erroneous actions with the control of the aircraft, as a result of which the aircraft at the stage of climbing began to decline and collided with the water surface," the message says..

During the investigation, a long list of identified violations in the preparation for flights was also created. In particular, for several months the preparation was carried out crumpled due to the large volume of tasks being solved by the crews of the military transport aviation.

It became known that Volkov's crew, in violation of the rules, was assembled from specialists of more than two crews belonging to different squadrons.

In addition, a number of mandatory training and control points for the crew.

The document also shows that the crews flying to Syria became "worn out" to the extreme degree of fatigue and loss of adequacy of perception of the situation.

As reported by the "Observer", December 25, 2016, there was a crash of the Tu-154 plane of the Russian Defense Ministry, which was sent to a military airbase in Syria. On board the aircraft were 92 people Join the group "Observer" on Facebook, stay tuned!.