On Saturday, almost immediately after returning from captivity, at Vnukovo airport, several former hostages distributed a handwritten statement signed by more than 30 people, demanding compensation for moral and material damage caused by the hijacking, reports Vremya Novostei.
According to the appeal, passengers of flight 2806, which was traveling on the route Istanbul-Moscow, demand compensation for health damage (on board there was a catastrophic shortage of medicine, water, and simply fresh air), for belongings and money lost during the terrorist attack and the storming of the plane, as well as overall for the stressful situation caused by the actions of the terrorists, which in turn resulted from neglect of security issues. The authors addressed this statement to the company Pan-Ukraine, since it, as is known, organized the charter to Turkey, and its details were on the airline tickets purchased by the passengers. However, judging by the tone of the statement, the passengers themselves do not yet know exactly whom to blame for the tragedy that befell them – in the document they ask to also pay attention to the airline Vnukovo Airlines, which owns the plane, and the authorities of Istanbul, and the Russian law enforcement agencies.
In any case, the passengers are determined to get a response from someone and thereby create a very important precedent. Whether the hostages of flight 2806 will be able to somehow compensate for their losses, which are obviously caused not only by the actions of the terrorists, no one can say for sure yet, but no one is in a hurry to refute it either. So, one tourism expert said in an interview with a correspondent of the newspaper Vremya Novostei that if a lawsuit against Pan-Ukraine is accepted, this company may well shift some claims to the airline itself – regarding complaints about the shortage of medicine, poor ventilation on the plane, as well as the services of Istanbul airport, which allowed the terrorists with weapons on board.
However, the biggest problem for the plaintiffs, apparently, will not be sorting out relations with specific companies, but with official authorities. They are the ones investigating the epic of the plane hijacking, and most of the passengers' claims will be based on this data. And law enforcement agencies, given the peculiarities of Russia's relations with Turkey and Saudi Arabia, are unlikely to agree to disclose certain mistakes made by the authorities of these countries.
Thus, representatives of the FSB and the Prosecutor's Office of Russia, who interviewed the passengers after the plane landed, categorically refused yesterday to comment on reports that flight attendant Yulia Fomina died not from a terrorist's knife, but from a bullet from one of the commandos who stormed the plane. Although it is quite obvious that the true cause was known as early as Saturday, as soon as the body of the deceased was delivered to Vnukovo – even a non-specialist can distinguish a knife wound from a gunshot wound.
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