Media: Crew Learned Prigozhin Would Take That Particular Flight At The Last Moment

The composition of the passengers was suddenly changed right before the flight.

The crew was informed that the now deceased Wagner PMC boss Yevgeny Prigozhin would take that particular flight to St. Petersburg almost at the last moment.

A source of the VCHK-OGPU Telegram channel connected with the Russian security forces said that initially three passengers were supposed to fly on the Wagner plane, but later their number increased to seven.

Obviously, we are talking about Yevgeny Prigozhin, his two bodyguards and Chekalov, the deputy for security, who were originally not supposed to fly in this jet.

As early as 11:11 p.m. the day before the crash, the number of RA-02795 passengers on the airline's lists sent by the protocol service of the head of Wagner was 3 people.

The crew learned that there would be 7 passengers on August 23 at 14:25 (message in a Telegram chat from the airline manager), that is, 3 hours before departure.

The next message was at 16:23: “They are coming. An hour — hour 20 minutes. The flight was already supposed to be delayed by 10 minutes.

The last message in the airline's chat was received at 17:40 from the flight attendant Christina. She messaged that the plane was taxiing.