Vladimir Rushailo and Evheni Marchuk

Security Councils Secretaries of Russia Vladimir Rushailo (left) and Ukraine Evheni Marchuk enter the house of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry in the town of Partenit, the Crimea, before the start of the working sitting of the technical Ukrainian-Russian Commission of the Inter-state Aviation Committee on Friday, November 2, 2001. This day meeting was devoted to the investigation of circumstances of the accident with the ill-fated Russian Tu-154, brought down by Ukrainian rocket C-200 over the Black Sea during the joint Russian- Ukrainian Anti-aircraft defense training. Marchuk informed that the results of the work of the commission would be presented to the IKAO experts. One of the versions explains the catastrophe by the reflection of the locator signal from the sea surface, when pointing C-200. Photo by Andrey Kanishchev/ UNIAN