God Bless:
Crew
The crew of the TU-154 aircraft conducting the flight Moscow-Sochi was made up of the flight crew of the 4th air squadron of Aircraft Division 3 (Moscow) and a team of stewards from the Altai branch of the air company.
The pilot-in-command, 1st class pilot, Michail Leonidovitch Guryev, was a very experienced pilot with clearance to fly on international routes. He was born in 1956, and was a graduate from the Balashov Higher Military Aviation School. He had over 5700 flying hours, 3500 of which he was the pilot-in-command on TU-154 planes.
Second pilot, Yuri Viktorovitch Andruschenko, born in 1970, graduated from the Kirovograd Higher Flying School. A 2nd class pilot who did most of his flight time of 3800 hours on TU-154.
The navigator, Stepan Aleksandrovitch Korol, was born in 1964. He was awarded the 1st class in 1997. His total flight time was over 9000 hours.
The flight engineer, Andrey Vladimirovitch Ermolaev, born in 1966, had 2nd class rating and the total flight time of over 3200 hours. He also had clearance for international flights.
According to superiors and colleagues, they were all excellent aviation specialists and highly professional pilots. During the preceding flight work they did not have any flight occurrences or incidents. In December 2003 - May 2004, all four passed tests for practical work in the air.
The backbone of the cabin crew consisted of experienced 2nd class stewards with the flight experience of 11 to 14 years. These are: chief air steward Olga Sergeevna Bykovskaya, born 1963, and stewards Sergey Vladimirovitch Ivanov, born 1966, and Yana Gennadyevna Tarsukova, born 1974. They were real mentors for the 25-year-old Marina Khudeeva, a 3rd class steward with the flight experience of just over a year.
All personnel of Siberia Airlines mourn the loss of colleagues and partners, close friends and excellent specialists who remained true to their professional duty to the very end.