The list of passengers of the crashed Prigozhin plane turned out to be “floating”

If the head of Wagner PMC changed his mind about flying, the Federal Air Transport Agency might not receive this data

Rumors that Yevgeny Prigozhin may not have been on board the Embraer 135BJ Legacy 600 aircraft that crashed near Tver continue to circulate in Russia and abroad. Now the only official reason that Prigozhin was on board is the list of passengers submitted to the Federal Air Transport Agency before the flight. As MK found out, if the head of Wagner PMC changed his mind about flying at the last moment, the list of passengers might not change.

According to our source in the aviation industry, there are no operational changes made to the passenger lists of business flights that occur less than an hour before takeoff. That is, if the number of Embraer passengers suddenly decreased, Rosavitsia might not find out about it promptly.

As for the earlier correction of the list, these data are available in the materials of the investigation of the plane crash.

The chronology is as follows: the initial flight to St. Petersburg was scheduled for the evening (after 22.00) on August 22 – there were to be three people on board.

However, at 23.00 on August 22, information was received that the flight was postponed to 17.30 on August 23.

At 23.11 on August 22, confirmation was received that three passengers would depart for the flight.

On August 23, at 14.25, new information was received that seven passengers would go on a flight.

At 16.23, information came from the aircraft manager that the passengers were on their way and would be in an hour – an hour and 20 minutes. As a result, Embraer took off ten minutes later than scheduled. Note that the plane was not packed to capacity: a total of 13 passengers can take on board.

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