Main passenger. Darina Gromova - the main passenger of the tragic flight

"Chief Passenger"- photograph of ten-month-old Darina Gromova (December 26, 2014 - October 31, 2015), who died with her parents in the A321 crash over the Sinai Peninsula. A photo from Pulkovo Airport, posted by her mother Tatyana Gromova on the social network “VKontakte” with the caption “Chief Passenger”, was published in many world media and attracted much attention as a symbol of the plane crash, which became the largest in the history of Russian aviation.

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A photo of Darina Gromova standing near the glass and watching the planes at Pulkovo Airport was published by her mother Tatyana Gromova on her page on VKontakte and Instagram with the caption “Main Passenger”, this post by Tatyana Gromova was the last.

Soon after the plane crashed and the list of those killed was published, a photograph of a ten-month-old girl at the airport attracted a lot of attention, spread all over the world, was published by many media outlets, appeared on television news, and was called by many publications a symbol of the tragedy of flight 9268.

A few days after the plane crash, a petition arose on the website change.org for the installation of a monument to Darina Gromova at Pulkovo airport. According to the initiators, this should be a sculpture of the “main passenger” with an airplane in his hand. Within a few days, the petition received more than 160 thousand signatures. The Russian Youth Union sent a letter to the famous sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, asking him to become an author sculptural composition, which includes a sculpture of Darina Gromova. Tsereteli agreed to the creation of the monument and stated that he had several options and agreed to work on the memorial for free. Earlier, the authorities of St. Petersburg announced that the city does not have the money to create a memorial, but it could be accepted as a gift. According to the chief architect of St. Petersburg, Alexander Petrov, the memorial should not be installed at Pulkovo Airport, as it will bring sad thoughts to passengers

Information about those killed in a plane crash over Egypt appears on the Internet. The ill-fated flight brought together dozens beautiful stories love and amazing human destinies.

Darina looks at the runway, reports TK "Russia 24". Small hands, fingers spread, pressed against the glass. “The main passenger,” Tatyana’s mother tenderly captions the photo of her daughter. This will be the first flight in her life. On October 15, the Gromov family left for Egypt from Pulkovo Airport. Alexey and Tanya got married a year ago - in July they celebrated a “calico” wedding. They stayed in Sharm el-Sheikh for two weeks and celebrated Darina’s 10th month. Her photograph has already become a symbol of this tragedy.

There were 25 children on board the Kogalymavia plane, including Nastya Sheina. She turned 3 years old in March. For her parents, this trip to the sea was special. Among Arabian fairy tale, in the most popular tourist city, under the scorching sun even at this time of year, Yuri and Olga celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary and ten years since they met.

Little Nastya never left her parents for a second. The photographs show her fooling around with her mom on a sun lounger near the pool, posing with her dad near the clumsy inscription “Egypt 2015” made by hand in the sand. On October 31 at 6:40 am Olga Sheina will write on her Internet page: “We are flying home.” And she will post a photo of her husband with Nastya in his arms. In 11 minutes the plane will take off, and these frames will be the last published.

It so happened that this particular flight collected dozens of incredible and touching love stories on board. The deputy head of Pskov, Alexander Kopylov, was a widower. His meeting with Elena Melnikova completely changed his life. She helped him get over his loss. Colleagues and acquaintances noticed: when the couple was together, their eyes shone with happiness. He promised to take her to the sea and kept his promise. When it became known today that the couple was on the list of dead, no one could believe this news.

“I couldn’t believe it. And when the information was confirmed, it was a shock. He wanted to give a gift to his wife Lena Mikhailovna, who had a birthday three days ago,” says Ivan Tsetsersky, the head of Pskov.

Love also predetermined the trip for the Rodin family. Elena and Alexander went to celebrate their first wedding anniversary on the golden beaches of Sharm el-Sheikh. Three years ago, Lena vacationed in Egypt with her parents, but this year she decided to return here with her beloved man. Tomorrow was the girl's birthday.

A citizen of Belarus was rewarded at work with a trip to an Egyptian resort. Relatives say this was his first flight.

Most of the plane's passengers were St. Petersburg residents. But residents of the Leningrad, Novgorod and Tambov regions also flew on board, Altai Territory, Karelia, as well as Pskov, Krasnoyarsk, Volgograd, Tyumen. Relatives of the victims are now traveling to St. Petersburg, where identification will take place.

Relatives of the victims have been gathering at Pulkovo Airport since the morning. They are confused and seem to not fully believe what happened.

“I came here, entered the airport. I went up to the counter and asked if there were still flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, they told me that only in the evening. That’s it,” says a relative of one of the victims.

Children and parents, brothers and sisters, friends and work colleagues were expected here. Irina came to meet her friends. At the beginning of the week they were basking in the sun together. She was supposed to fly on the same flight, but her husband persuaded her to return home a few days earlier. Yulia Kazantseva managed to avoid tragedy in the same way.

Psychologists are now working with loved ones of passengers on the Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg flight.

Along with the passengers, there were also seven crew members on board: two pilots and five flight attendants. Colleagues spoke of them as responsible and efficient workers. The captain of the aircraft was Valery Nemov, who had more than 12 thousand flight hours to his credit. Kogalymavia denies his possible guilt in the crash of the airliner.

“This person is certainly experienced, certainly respected, certainly a very honored pilot. We have no reason to assume that this was some kind of mistake on the part of the air crew,” said Oksana Golovina, a partner at THC.

On at the moment Already 150 bodies have been pulled out of the rubble. Some of them have already been sent to Cairo to the city morgue. A special plane from the Ministry of Emergency Situations flew to Egypt. Russian rescuers will also take part in the operation at the crash site.

When adults die because of someone else, it is a terrible tragedy. If children die for the same reason, then this is a doubly tragedy!

The tragic story of one family

A ten-month-old girl from the Leningrad region flew to Egypt by sea with her parents. In her father’s arms she swayed on the Mediterranean waves and soaked up the sun.

Darina Gromova is the main passenger of the tragic flight. Photo from her mother's social network page.

While returning home, the girl died in a plane crash along with her father and mother and other passengers on the plane. Among the almost three dozen children on that flight, there was no less Darina. Her parents Alexey and Tatyana Gromov worked in the same thriving company. It was a good young family.

At Pulkovo Airport, the mother took a photograph of her daughter looking at the planes through the terminal window. And posted the photo on social networks entitled: "Chief Passenger". Now this photo of Darina Gromova, still alive, has spread all over the world.

On the Internet, Darina is called the main passenger of the tragic flight. The baby’s grandmother, feeling the trouble, asked the children to leave her granddaughter with her. But they didn’t listen.

How did this happen?

On October 31, 2015, an Airbus A321-231 of a Siberian airline crashed over the Sinai Peninsula. It was chartered by the travel company Briscoe for international charter flight 7K-9268 St. Petersburg - Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg. On it, tourists returning home from Egypt were vacationing on the Mediterranean coast.

Within twenty minutes, the autopilot raised the plane to an altitude of ten kilometers. From there he immediately began to fall vertically at a breakneck speed of 1.8 km/minute. That is, it took 5.5 minutes to fall to the ground. During this time, the pilots requested a landing. But before runway it was more than 50 kilometers.

There were reports online that there was an explosion in the tail of the plane. They even named the person who brought the explosives on board and placed them in the “tail” of the liner. This was later confirmed by the layout of the remains of the liner. The disaster claimed the lives of 224 people (including the death of the entire crew). Initially there were several versions, in particular, a technical problem or a human factor. The main version was a terrorist attack.

The ISIS group, an organization banned in Russia, attributed it to its bloody account. As always in such cases, the perpetrators were not punished. The Kremlin assured that they would search for those involved in the death of the plane passengers indefinitely and punish the perpetrators.

This is the biggest disaster of the Russian passenger aircraft. There was no such tragedy either in the history of Egypt or in this series of Airbus. Flights to this African country from the Russian Federation were stopped for a long time, which hit Egypt’s tourism hard. Flights recently resumed after the Russian side was convinced of the safety of local air terminals. This kind of work is still being done.

Terrorist attack or equipment malfunction?

The Egyptians stubbornly refuse to recognize the cause of the disaster as a terrorist attack. The transport ministry of this country assured that final conclusions would be made quickly. But the conclusions still contain no mention of a terrorist attack. So trust them!

Darina is the main passenger: the story of the trip, about her family, photos. In a terrible plane crash that occurred over the Sinai Peninsula, 224 people died, including 29 children. But I would like to pay more attention to one of the stories: the Gromov family (mother, father and daughter), flying from vacation.

Main passenger

Ten-month-old Darina Gromova, the daughter of Alexei Gromov, was interested in looking at airplanes in such close proximity for the first time in her life, as a result of which her mother captured the child’s genuine interest in the photo and posted it on Instagram with the description: “ Main passenger #family #darinagromova @Pulkovo Airport Saint-Petersburg New Terminal 1" For the Gromov family, this was their first trip together.

As LifeNews reports, Darina’s grandmother admitted that she was worried that her granddaughter would not survive the flight well, but the parents did not dare to leave their 10-month-old daughter for the duration of the trip. In addition, the woman noted that her husband and Darina’s grandfather was a military pilot who retired with the rank of colonel. Her son Alexey also wanted to become a pilot, but she did not allow him. As a result, he went to work for an IT company.

Rescuers are our bodies of 10-month-old Darina Gromova and her parents, Alexei and Tatyana, victims of the crashAirbus A321 in Egypt. The girl was the youngest on board; her mother called her “the main passenger.” The couple got married just a year ago, and this holiday in Egypt was the first trip together for their family. Before flying to Sharm el-Sheikh two weeks ago, Tatyana posted on her Instagram a photo of little Darina watching the planes at Pulkovo.

“The main passenger,” the young mother affectionately signed the photo, not suspecting that this particular photograph would become a sad symbol of the terrible tragedy that occurred in the skies over Sinai.

Journalists from the LifeNews TV channel reported the discovery of the bodies of the Gromov family. In a conversation with the publication’s staff, Darina’s grief-stricken grandmother said that she did not want to let the girl go to Egypt and was worried about how the baby would survive the flight. She also offered Alexei and Tatyana Gromov to leave their 10-month-old granddaughter with her during the trip, but they refused.

Darina Gromova’s grandmother said that her son Alexey called her on the eve of the disaster to inform her of his imminent return. In the crash of the Kogalymavia liner, a woman lost three relatives at once - a little granddaughter, one of her sons and a daughter-in-law.

Let us note that rescuers from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations will continue active searches at the site of the plane crash with Russians in Egypt from the very morning of November 2, 2015. As TASS reports with reference to the acting chief National Center management in crisis situations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Alexey Smirnov, currently the search area is more than 20 square kilometers. Due to the fact that the plane, according to available data, began to fall apart while still in the air, the bodies of its passengers were scattered at a great distance from each other and from the main crash site.

Let us recall that the Airbus-321 aircraft, operating flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, crashed on the Sinai Peninsula on October 31, 2015. The airliner's crew stopped communicating shortly after takeoff. According to some information, the plane dropped sharply by 1.5 kilometers, after which it disappeared from radar screens. Before contact was lost, the pilot was requesting permission to land at Cairo airport.

There were 224 people on board the crashed A321 - seven crew members and 217 passengers. The plane crash was the largest in the history of Russian and Soviet aviation.