Legendary photos. Helicopter crash over a nuclear power plant and a skeleton arm

Helicopter accident, October 2, 1986 (by Victor Grebenyuk)

It was in the second series of "Chernobyl". A helicopter flies, spilling a mixture of reactor. At one point, the car flies over the reactor, the screws break, a disaster. The scene is spectacular, but it looks alien. Perhaps because it is clbadified as if the helicopter broke down due to radiation. A closer look reveals that its blades are still stuck in the cable hanging from the tower crane. In reality, it was like that, except that the disaster did not occur the day after the accident at the nuclear power plant, but after almost six months.

According to one of the liquidators of the accident, six months after the disaster, the reactor was no longer filled with mixtures of sand, boron, dolomite and lead. At that time, the helicopters were fighting with radioactive dust in the air, filling everything with glue. It was impossible to get rid of it otherwise and so they hung a glue container at the helicopter and poured it over the roofs. The glue froze, after which it was cut and the resulting leaves were washed away for recycling.

On the morning of the tragic day, the Mi-8 crew, led by Commander Vladimir Vorobiev, was photographed on the bottom of a helicopter. The photo asked a reporter from one of the Union newspapers. Some pilots are superstitious and refuse this type of shooting, but Vladimir and the crew, as well as several other people, have agreed.

The day of October 2 promised to be the norm. Usually helicopters flew several flights over the glue during the day. I flew to the site, emptied the barrel, picked up the plane, grabbed a new batch of glue and refueled. It was so almost all day.

The work period ended, it was around 17 hours, there was not much left until the sun set. The pilots had to fly just against the blinding eye of the star. That she played her fatal role. Eyewitnesses believe that the sun blinded the MI-8 pilot and that he simply did not see any cable hanging from any of the three cranes located on the way.

The aggravating circumstances can be attributed to the fact that the cable has long hung a rail, which has made the obstacle much more visible. Without rail, the cable itself in the sun's rays has become indistinguishable. The helicopter flies by spraying glue. A moment – and in all directions, flying debris from the blades. Another moment, and the car falls from a height of about 100 meters right next to the reactor.

The four crew members, led by Captain Vladimir Vorobyov, 30, died instantly. A few hours later, the burned bodies as well as large fragments of the helicopter were removed. And 31 years later, during the dismantling of the light roof of the unit 4 engine room, fragments of the tail rotor and the tail unit of the machine were found. Today, after decontamination, they serve as exhibitions at the museum. In memory of the victims of the disaster, attach a commemorative sign.

The helicopter firing was almost accidentally carried out by the operator of the news studio of Western Siberian newspaper Victor Grebenyuk. His task was to capture the history of liquidators' work for history. It turns out that day and that hour, when Victor decided to take off from the Mi-8 flight, the car encountered a cable hanging from a tower crane.

A man died at the hands of gangsters in 1991. He was preparing an expedition to the North Pole with Fedor Konyukhov.

Handmade Skeleton with Ring, December 1895 (by Wilhelm Roentgen)

Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen – a typical scientist of his time. Devoting himself to work at the Institute of Physics at the University of Würzburg, he dreamed of a discovery that could change the world. Unsurprisingly, the German literally did not leave the laboratory.

William's subject of interest was what are called cathode rays – the flow of electrons emitted by the cathode of the vacuum tube. The experiments usually lasted late. So it was November 8, 1895. Only at the approach of midnight, the X-ray reluctantly extinguished the light and began to return home, after his wife and adoptive daughter were waiting there. Suddenly, in total darkness, he was surprised to find a bright spot of greenish hue.

It turned out that the cardboard screen was lit, covered with a layer of synergistic barium. But why The scientist examined the lab and noticed that he had forgotten to turn off the current in the cathode ray tube. An opaque lid closed and I forgot to turn off. A simple switch – and the screen stopped shining. Wilhelm turned on the phone again – the screen turned on immediately.

Of course, the girl and the woman did not wait for the head of the family that night. X-rays stunned until morning, ran around the cathode ray tube with a screen in his hands, not believing in his eyes. New rays, which the scientist has called x-rays, have easily and naturally penetrated through paper, glbad, flesh. According to the physicist, until the end of his life, he could not forget at the same time a terrible and surprising image – William placed his hand between the CRT and the screen, after which he saw the bones "translucent".

Over the next two months, a scientist, forgetting everything, did not leave the laboratory. During this time, he has conducted a large number of experiments with new radiation and has described almost all its properties known to date.

Already on December 28, a scientific article had been prepared, to which Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen had attached a picture of a brush with an alliance. It was the first x-ray in the world! In the role of the model was the wife of the scientist Anna Bertha Ludwig.

And only a month later, US doctors used x-rays to determine if a patient had a broken arm. The opening of X-rays is quickly entered into medical practice and remains an indispensable tool.

The fame instantly fell on William. However, the scientist repelled her as best as he could. Roentgen has therefore not filed a patent for its discovery, claiming that X-rays could not be a source of revenue. He received commissions, received awards, received a noble rank and promised high academic appointments. The scientist gave up everything.

Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen became the first Nobel Prize in physics in the world, but he did not even attend the ceremony because he was busy and continued his experiments. Subsequently, all the money received from the Nobel Committee he gave to his country, which was defeated during the First World War.

Anna Bertha Ludwig died shortly after the war. Wilhelm was left without family, condition and health. Rumor has it that he would not even have the means to see a doctor and it is only thanks to the help of one of the students that he was there. enrolled in a radiological examination revealing a suspicion of bowel cancer. The great physicist died four years after the death of his wife, bequeathed to destroy all his scientific works.

The wish of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was granted. But in history, it has always remained because in 1920, the use of X-rays was widespread all over the world. Yes, and X-rays should be called x-rays. The scientist's wife also remained in the story, becoming the first "patient" of a new diagnostic method.

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