Yevgeny Prigozhin equipped the plane with parachutes and destroyed the lists of passengers

For the sake of conspiracy, the wrong airports were indicated as the point of arrival

We have become aware of new details of the events before the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane. Sources told how he and Wagner PMC employees behaved on flights on a business jet and how they transported weapons and ammunition.

Earlier, MK found out that before the fatal flight on the route Moscow – Petersburg, starting from the twentieth of July, Prigozhin’s Embraer Legacy aircraft was under repair in an open parking lot at Sheremetyevo Airport. The reason for the repair was the breakdown of the turborefrigerator, which was not so easy to buy due to sanctions.

Three people had official access to the aircraft during this period: the technical director of the MNT-Avia company that owned the aircraft and two engineers.

A few hours before departure from Moscow on August 23, two strangers entered the plane. They were brought by co-pilot Rustam Karimov – he is on the list of the Federal Air Transport Agency and died in a crash.

The man and woman presented themselves as potential buyers of Embraer Legacy, employees of the RusJet company. They examined the board for an hour.

In the evening, the plane with Prigozhin, Utkin, Chekalov and others headed for St. Petersburg. Last post from him received from stewardess Kristina Raspopova. At 17:40 she transmitted one short phrase: “Taxiing”.

According to MK, the founder of PMC Wagner Evgeny Prigozhin, who allegedly died in a plane crash, was unpretentious during air travel, but sometimes surprised the crew with his decisions.

In particular, the pilots were amazed that the two planes used by Prigozhin had parachutes on a mandatory basis (the second plane also flew from Moscow, from Vnukovo to St. Petersburg on the day of the accident, but after the news of the emergency returned back. Today he flew to Baku).

Parachutes were loaded on both sides in the spring. This is a rather pointless undertaking from the point of view of pilots: in the event of a disaster, a parachute on board the aircraft is useless. However, Prigogine’s demand was granted.

The high-ranking passenger never took alcohol on board. Of the drinks, there were only juice and cola, and Prigogine carefully monitored that the drinks were of domestic production. In food, he was extremely unpretentious: he could order, for example, scrambled eggs, and in the case of a short flight, do without food at all.

Yevgeny Prigozhin and his people did not carry any special cargo. Most often, it was a change of clothes: the head of the Wagner went on a flight in jeans and a shirt, and then changed into camouflage.

The procedure for transporting weapons was strictly observed (recall that pistols were found at the crash site of an Embraer 135BJ Legacy 600, as well as, according to unconfirmed reports, grenades). Usually, the cartridges were taken out of the firearms, placed in a bag, sealed and handed over to the crew commander. After the end of the flight, the weapons were also returned to their owners.

Aircraft crews were given mobile phones with a closed communication channel. This was due, among other things, to the fact that Prigozhin periodically called the pilots himself. He was interested in the weather at the airport of arrival, asked whether the aircraft would be treated with anti-icing liquid, etc.

The pilots remembered Prigogine as a simple but demanding passenger who demanded respect. Once he reprimanded the crew commander for the fact that cleaning was not carried out on board. “Your plane is in shit,” the pilot remembered his phrase. At the same time, he respected the pilots, always thanked them for the flight and shook hands.

The pilots themselves examined the plane very carefully before departure – both they themselves and the passenger were carefully concerned with safety issues. In particular, Prigozhin demanded that the lists of passengers be destroyed after the flight.

Conspiracy was often observed in this way. For example, the plane with Prigozhin took off with the specified end point of the route “Zhukovsky Airport”, but instead landed at Pulkovo. Such “somersaults” caused dissatisfaction with the aviation services, and recently they tried not to abuse such tricks.

Read the material “General Popov allowed the destruction of the “black boxes” of the fallen Prigozhin plane”.