In less than 50 years, he had everything a man could dream of: a beautiful wife, son, daughter, favorite job. Everything disappeared in an instant, turning further existence into an endless nightmare.
Tolerant Europe did not want to understand the grief of this man, and then, when the irreparable happened, she started crying: “Savage! Barbarian! Madman from Russia!
The guardians of universal values demanded severe punishment for him, not realizing that nothing could be worse than what had already happened to him.
The Kaloev family: happiness for four
Vitaly Kaloev was born in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz) on January 15, 1956. His father was a school teacher, and his mother was a kindergarten teacher. Former youngest child in the family, Vitaly learned to read early and spent a lot of time reading books.
At school, he studied for the "five", but after graduation he did not enter the institute, but the construction college. Higher education did not disappear from him: after serving in the army, he entered the Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
While studying at the university, he managed to work as a foreman at a construction site, then he began to work in one of the first building cooperatives.
At the age of 25, Vitaly married Svetlana. The young wife was a girl with character: after graduation, she made a successful career in a bank, and then became a financial director in a large company.
At the end of 1991, a son was born, who was named Bones. Like any Caucasian man, Vitaly was proud of the heir and had high hopes for him. The boy loved his father very much and justified his expectations: like Vitaly, he studied well at school, was fond of paleontology and astronautics.
In 1998, the Kaloevs had a daughter, who was named Diana. Vitaly adored his little princess, but it so happened that he had to spend a lot of time away from his family.
Kaloev worked in the construction department, but the 1998 financial crisis hit the construction sector hard. In 1999, he managed to find work abroad, in Spain. Under the contract, he went to work in Barcelona.
Audience Award at the festival "Vivat Cinema of Russia", held in St. Petersburg. received Sarik Andreasyan's drama "Unforgiven". The prototype of the main character of the film is Vitaly Kaloev, whose whole family died in a plane crash over Lake Constance
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Additional flight
By the summer of 2002, he had not seen his family for nine months. Vitaly was in a hurry to finish work on the cottage as soon as possible and hand it over to the customer, because after that Svetlana and the children were supposed to fly to him in Barcelona.
What happened next was a fatal coincidence. Svetlana Kaloeva with her son and daughter flew to Barcelona with a transfer in Moscow. The weather failed, and by the time they reached the Russian capital, their flight to Spain had already left. There were no tickets for other flights, and the family was stuck at Sheremetyevo Airport for several hours.
And suddenly - good luck! Svetlana was offered three tickets for a charter flight operated by Bashkir Airlines.
This flight should not have been on the schedule. It also arose because of the delay. A group of schoolchildren from Bashkiria, students of a specialized school of UNESCO, as well as winners of various Olympiads, went on vacation to Spain. They missed their flight and the airline arranged an extra flight to take them to Barcelona. Schoolchildren and accompanying persons did not occupy the entire salon, and tickets for empty seats were offered to everyone. Three of them were bought by the Kaloevs.
Vitaly, having learned that Svetlana was still flying out of Moscow, breathed a sigh of relief. There were only a few hours left before the meeting.
Broken necklace
The flight did not arrive in Barcelona. Instead, the news came about the collision of two aircraft in the sky over Lake Constance.
Upon learning of what had happened, Kaloev flew first to Zurich, and then to Überlingen, from where he got to the crash site.
He was the first of the native passengers of the Tu-154 "Bashkir Airlines", who reached the crash site. The police did not want to let him through the cordon, but he told them that his wife, son and daughter were on the plane. The guards silently parted.
The plane broke up in the air and the bodies of the victims were scattered over a wide area. Volunteers could not stand it, professional rescuers could not stand it, and Vitaly continued to look for his relatives.
On the first day of the search, he stumbled upon the torn necklace of his daughter, and then on Diana herself. Unlike most of the dead, the girl's body was not mutilated, she seemed to be sleeping.
He did not lose his mind at that moment and continued to search. The crippled bodies of Svetlana and Kostya were found only on the tenth day of the search.
The family of Vitaly Kaloev was no more.
“The only consolation is a daily visit to their graves”
He buried them in Vladikavkaz, placing an amazingly beautiful monument on their grave, in which he put his whole soul and talent.
On a website created in memory of the victims of the disaster, he wrote: “My life stopped at this tragic date 07/01/2002. I have only memories to live on. The only consolation is a daily visit to their graves at the cemetery in Vladikavkaz, where they are buried.”
He has nothing left. There was only a desire to get an answer: why did the catastrophe happen and who is to blame for it?
Tu-154 "Bashkir Airlines" and cargo Boeing-757 airline DHL collided almost at a right angle. In the last seconds, the pilots saw each other in the night sky and with all their might rejected the controls, trying to avoid a meeting. But it was too late.
The vertical tail stabilizer of the Boeing cut the Tu-154 in half. No one on board Russian aircraft there was no chance of survival. The crew of the cargo Boeing tried to fight, but the liner, which had lost its stabilizer, lost control and also crashed to the ground.
A total of 71 people died in the crash.
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"Scapegoats" wanted to make the dead pilots
The collision occurred in the area of responsibility of the dispatchers of the private Swiss company Skyguide. That night, part of the equipment in the control room did not work, one of the two dispatchers left for lunch and only the 34-year-old was left at the console Peter Nielsen, which worked on two terminals at once.
Nielsen did not immediately see the dangerous convergence of the Tu-154 and the Boeing. When he realized that the situation was becoming critical, he instructed the Russian pilots to descend.
On board the Tu-154 was the TCAS system, which is responsible for the automatic warning of dangerous approaches. Unlike the controller, TCAS gave a climb signal. However, the Tu-154 crew relied on the instructions, according to which priority is given to the dispatcher's commands.
At the same time, Boeing, following the instructions of TCAS, also began to decline. Nielsen's last fatal mistake was that he informed the crew of the Tu-154 about the plane from the right, while the Boeing was approaching from the left.
Skyguide management categorically did not want to admit guilt. They decided to make the dead Russian pilots "scapegoats", accusing them of not knowing the language and a low level of aviation training.
But the investigation commission admitted that the Tu-154 crew acted exactly according to the instructions. The fact that the instructions turned out to be imperfect cannot be blamed on the pilots. But the mistakes and violations made by Skyguide and the dispatcher Nielsen are beyond doubt.
"The Man with the Black Beard"
The relatives of the victims were in a terrible situation. Skyguide's lawyers offered them to drop their claims in exchange for a payment of between 40,000 and 60,000 francs, depending on the extent of the damage. At the same time, Skyguide, according to experts, could count on insurance payments, allowing to stay in the black after settlements with relatives.
Vitaly Kaloev did not need money. He wanted these respectable gentlemen in suits to admit their guilt and apologize in a human way.
A year after the disaster, he met with the head of Skyguide Alain Rosier. He asked him all the same questions: about the fault of the dispatcher, about the fault of the company. According to Kaloev, Rosier admitted that the dispatcher could have prevented the disaster. Then Skyguide employees will say that their boss was terribly scared of "a man with a black beard."
In November 2003, Vitaly Kaloev received a dry official letter informing him that Skyguide saw no reason to apologize.
Skyguide representatives sent Peter Nielsen to "psychological rehabilitation", trying to hide him from the attention of the press and relatives of the victims.
But Vitaliy Kaloev managed to find out where this man lives. On February 24, 2004, he appeared on the threshold of Nielsen's house in Kloten, Switzerland.
fatal meeting
Peter Nielsen had a wife and three children, and, probably, he could understand Vitaly's grief. But Nielsen was completely unprepared for the visit of the “man with a black beard”, who handed him photographs of the deceased family.
Did the dispatcher understand what the man who had lost everything through his fault was telling him? In any case, he did not want to talk to Kaloev.
According to Vitaly, he asked if Nielsen wanted to apologize, but he hit him on the arm and tried to leave.
The wife of Peter Nielsen, who jumped out at the noise, found her husband on the ground in a pool of blood. Doctors counted 12 stab wounds at the dispatcher. The examination established that they were inflicted with a folding knife. Nielsen died on the spot.
Vitaly Kaloev was detained at the hotel. He told the police that he did not remember what happened, but from what he was told, he could have killed Peter Nielsen.
Time does not heal
At the trial, Vitaly repeated: this would not have happened if those responsible for the disaster had simply apologized to him and other relatives of the victims.
On October 26, 2005, Kaloev was found guilty by the Supreme Court of the Canton of Zurich and sentenced to eight years in prison.
In September 2007, a verdict was announced in the case of eight employees of the Skyguide company, accused of violations that led to the disaster over Lake Constance. Of the eight defendants, four were acquitted. Of the remaining four, three were given suspended sentences and one was fined.
In November 2007, Vitaly Kaloev was released early for good behavior. A few days later he returned to North Ossetia. Soon he took the post of Deputy Minister of Construction and Architecture.
In January 2016, Kaloev retired.
13 years after the disaster that forever broke his life, Vitaly married a second time. He did not have children in the new family.
He says that time does not heal, that he considers life lived in vain, because he could not save his relatives.
At the place where the wreckage of the planes fell, today there is a monument: scattered pearls of a torn necklace ...
In 2002, on the night of July 2, a passenger Tu-154 collided with a cargo Boeing-757 over Lake Constance in Germany. There were 71 passengers in the Tu-154, of which 52 were children. The family of the architect Vitaly Kaloev died in that plane crash.
The passenger aircraft was on a charter flight from Moscow to Barcelona, and a cargo Boeing from Bergamo (Italy) to Brussels. Children (52 people) were taken to Spain to have a rest - vouchers were issued by the UNESCO Committee of Bashkiria for high academic achievements.
Among the passengers of the Tu-154 was the wife of Vitaly Kaloev Svetlana, their 10-year-old son Kostya and 4-year-old daughter Diana. Vitaliy Kaloev himself at that time worked in Barcelona, and the family flew to him. After a collision with a cargo Boeing, the Tu-154 simply fell apart right in the sky. The wreckage was found in the vicinity of Überlingen within a radius of 40 square meters. km. It took the rescuers a whole week to find the bodies of all the dead: they were scattered across the field, near the nearest buildings, on the roadsides.
The story of the tragedy of Vitaliy Kaloev, how he killed the dispatcher
The plane crash occurred a few minutes after the transfer of escort of the Russian aircraft by German air traffic controllers to their colleagues in Switzerland, who worked at the SkyGuide center of Zurich-Kloten airport.
According to the rules, two dispatchers should be on duty, but there was one - Dane Peter Nielsen. He handed over to the crew of the Russian passenger aircraft the order to descend at the very moment when neither he nor the cargo Boeing could take the safe echelons. It soon became known:
- The main equipment for telephone communication and automatic notification of the personnel of the center about the dangerous proximity of aircraft was turned off. The main and backup telephone lines were not working.
The planes were approaching, everything pointed to a plane crash. This was noticed by a dispatcher from the German Karlsruhe, and tried to get through eleven times, but to no avail.
Peter Nielsen worked for some time after the tragedy, then he was fired.
One of the first to arrive at the scene of the tragedy was Vitaly Kaloev. The director could not find a place for himself, because his whole family died - his beloved wife and two small children. At first, the special services did not let him into the crash zone, but he said that he wanted to search for the bodies of the dead with them, and he was given permission. During a search operation, Vitaliy Kaloev discovered a pearl necklace. It was the decoration of his daughter Diana. The body of the baby had practically no serious injuries. Soon the disfigured bodies of Svetlana and Kostya were found.
When Vitaliy Kaloev found out that the plane crash was the fault of the dispatcher Peter Nielsen, he tried many times to contact the leadership of the aviation company. He wanted to know what degree of fault the dispatcher had in the tragedy. Then he decided to talk to Peter Nielsen himself, and asked SkyGuide to arrange a meeting for them. Initially, the company agreed, then refused, without explaining the reason. A year has passed, mourning events were arranged to coincide with the anniversary of the terrible tragedy, and the director again turned to the company with the same questions and demands, and was again refused. But he was not going to give up.
February 24, 2004 was the last day of the life of the former dispatcher Peter Nielsen - Vitaly Kaloev dealt with him in his house in Kloten (a suburb of Zurich). The director came to him with photographs of the deceased family, waiting for repentance from that. However, the man pushed Vitaly Kaloev away, the photos scattered. The director simply "lost his temper" and killed the man, inflicting more than twenty wounds with a knife. The dispatcher is survived by his wife and three children.
Vitaliy Kaloev was very quickly detained by the Swiss police: an orientation was sent out to him. The director was detained at a local hotel and interrogated. He told how he found out where Peter Nielsen lives, what kind of family he has. He also said that he was in a state of passion when he stabbed Nielsen in his house.
Vitaly Kaloev was sent for a psychiatric examination. According to the results obtained, he was declared sane. The trial took place in October 2005: the director was given a term of 8 years, which he served in a Swiss prison. True, Vitaliy Kaloev was released already in 2007 by the decision of the Swiss Supreme Court for exemplary behavior. Upon his return to North Ossetia, he began working as Deputy Minister of Architecture and Construction.
The guilt of the Swiss air traffic controllers was proven.
- The control center in Zurich did not immediately notice the danger of two planes colliding at the same echelon. As a result, the Tu-154 pilots carried out the dispatcher's command to descend, while the on-board flight safety system required an urgent climb.
The airline pleaded not guilty. A couple of years after the plane crash, Alain Rossier, director of SkyGuide, publicly apologized to the families of the victims. Vladimir Putin received a letter from then-Swiss President Joseph Deiss.
The film "Consequences" was made about this plane crash, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger played the main role. Two days ago, on September 20, there was a press screening of "Unforgiven" by Sarik Andreasyan about the same tragedy. Vitaly Kaloev was entrusted to play Dmitry Nagiyev.
What is now with Vitaly Kaloev
My heart hurts for Vitaly Kaloev. But a man tries to be strong, to arrange his life. Recently it became known that he remarried. The director speaks little and with caution about the new family. It is known that the chosen one is called Irina, they got married according to the Ossetian rite.
Irina and Vitaly Kaloev became husband and wife back in 2014. Now the director is 62 years old. For the anniversary (60th anniversary), he was given the award "For the Glory of Ossetia."
Vitaliy Kaloev is a man who lost his whole family in a plane crash in an instant. He avenged the deaths of people close to him and returned to life again, creating a new family.
Biography of Vitaly Kaloev
Vitaly owes his birth to his parents - teachers. He was born the last, sixth child. Before him, there were two brothers and three sisters in the family. His hometown is Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz).
Of the six children, Vitaly was the most intelligent, from the age of five he learned to read and re-read many books. He graduated from school with honors, entered the construction technical school, served in the army. After serving in the army, he continued his studies at the North Caucasian Mining and Metallurgical Institute at the Faculty of Architecture and Construction. He combined his studies with work at a construction site, as a foreman. Received a diploma in architecture. He helped build the Sputnik military camp near Vladikavkaz, for Soviet military personnel whose units were withdrawn from the GDR.
During perestroika, Vitaly created a construction cooperative. Until 1990, he served as head of the construction department of Vladikavkaz. According to a contract signed with a Spanish construction company in 1990, he left for Spain as an architect to design houses for immigrants from Ossetia.
Family of Vitaly Kaloev
In 1991, Vitaly was married to Svetlana Gagiev (born in 1958). After graduating from SOGU in 1983, Svetlana received a degree in economics. Svetlana's career began successfully from an ordinary bank employee to the head of a department. At one time she occupied the chair of the director of the commercial bank "Adamon Bank". During her acquaintance with Kaloev, she worked as deputy director for finance of the Daria brewery.
Vitaly and Svetlana had two children - a boy and a girl. Son Konstantin was born on November 19, 1991, daughter Diana - on March 7, 1998. Constantine was attracted to space, and he devoted a lot of time to it, he was also interested in paleontology. Before the disaster, he managed to finish five classes in high school No. 5 of Vladikavkaz.
Tragedy over Lake Constance
In 2002, Kaloev devoted himself to Spain for two years already. In that year, he completed the construction of a cottage near Barcelona and was waiting for the arrival of his family, whom he had not seen for 9 months.
For a trip to Spain, Vitaly's family came to Moscow to buy plane tickets and fly to a loved one, but this did not work out. After three hours of torment, Svetlana was offered last-minute tickets on board the Bashkir Airlines plane, which, due to an air traffic controller's mistake, crashed in the sky over Lake Constance.
Hearing about the tragedy, Kaloev immediately flew from Barcelona to Zurich, and then to Überlingen (Germany), where this sad event took place. The police were at the scene of the plane crash. They did not want to let Vitaly to the scene until he explained to them about the death of his wife and two children.
There, near Lake Constance, three kilometers from the plane crash, Vitaly found the body of his daughter Diana, and ten days later the bodies of his wife and son.
Air traffic controller Peter Nielsen in the life of Vitaly Kaloev
On that ill-fated day in 2002, Peter Nilson and his partner were at the control panel of the aircraft. The partner left the console for a while and handed over control to Peter. Some of the equipment was not working at the time. And at the same time, two planes were moving in the sky towards each other (cargo and passenger). Aircraft pilots in flight are guided by both automation and the actions of the controller, the controller's word is decisive. At that moment, listening to the words of the dispatcher was a mistake, which led to an inevitable disaster. On July 2, 2002, 71 people died, most of them children.
Vitaliy Kaloev repeatedly appealed to the Swiss airline with a request for an apology from the company and directly from Peter Nilsson to all the relatives of the victims. But the company did not heed his request. Peter Nilsson after the disaster was transferred to another place.
Vitaly, with the help of a detective, found the dispatcher's place of residence and himself turned to him with a request for an apology. Which was denied. Vitaly's cup of patience was already overflowing; he mortally wounded Peter with fourteen stabs.
The Swiss court sentenced Vitaliy Kaloev to eight years in prison, for exemplary behavior he was released ahead of schedule.
When leaving the prison, Vitaly took his things and letters, weighing 20 kg, which his admirers wrote to him, supporting him in a difficult moment for him.
The return of Vitaliy Kaloev to his homeland
After imprisonment, Vitaly returned to his homeland in North Ossetia. He accepted the leading post of Deputy Minister of Construction and Architecture. Occupying this post in every possible way helped people who needed help. He managed to do it by 40-50 percent.
In 2016, he left the chair of the head in connection with his retirement.
13 years after the terrible tragedy, Vitaly remarried. new wife name is Irina, the wedding took place according to the tradition of Ossetia. According to Vitaly, if there was an Ossetian wedding, then that's it. They go to the registry office just for a stamp. All relatives gather at the wedding.
AdvertisingVitaliy Kaloev, it would seem, a common person, Soviet architect and builder. But the event that took place on July 1, 2002, radically changed the man's life, completely depriving it of meaning.
In a plane crash, Vitaly Konstantinovich lost his wife and two children. heartbroken father and loving husband decided to punish the dispatcher Peter Nielsen, who was responsible for the tragedy. This story has acquired a global scale: Vitaly's act is spoken not only in Russia, but also in other countries.
A former architect from Vladikavkaz, who lost his entire family in a plane crash and was later convicted of murdering a Swiss airline dispatcher, married a second time.
Vitaliy Kaloev, today, a new family: about personal
According to the memoirs of Yuri, Vitaly's brother, the younger Kaloev was in no hurry with the wedding. Konstantin Kambolatovich dreamed of his son's marriage and even raised four bulls as a gift for the holiday, but Vitaly first wanted to get on his feet, and then start a family to provide for his wife and children.
Kaloev met his future bride Svetlana Gagievskaya at a bank where she worked as a director.
In 1991, in the winter, the lovers got married, there was a large-scale celebration in the Kaloev family: finally Vitaly got married, and even the relatives liked the bride. The couple had two children: son Kostya in 1991 and daughter Diana in 1998.
The Kaloev family lived together, the man kept home shooting with happy times when everyone was smiling.
Vitaliy Kaloev, today, a new family: when, what happened?
Kaloev's first wife and their two common children died in 2002 in a plane crash. Two planes collided over Lake Constance on the border of Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
The plane flew to Barcelona, almost all the passengers on board are children who received free tours to Spain from the state for good studies and victories at the Olympiads. Therefore, the company decided to sell the remaining eight seats: there were 71 people on board.
The airliner flew over Germany in the late afternoon, the flight was managed by the private Swiss company Skyguide. At the time of the tragedy, 2 people were working in the control room, one of whom was absent for a break. 34-year-old Peter Nielsen had to independently cope with two remotes and give commands to the pilots.
Part of the equipment was turned off in the control room, and the telephone connection did not work. Peter Nielsen noticed late that the Boeing, which was flying to Brussels, was on the same flight level as the Tu-154 aircraft of Bashkir Airlines. Peter tried to correct the situation and gave commands to Flight 2937 to descend. At the same time, the TCAS electronic automatic system gave the same command to descend to the Boeing.
The pilots of Flight 611 tried to tell Nielsen that they had followed the TCAS command, but the air traffic controller was instructing the other crew and listened to the message from the Boeing command.
The planes collided at right angles over Lake Constance, near the town of Iberlingen in Germany on July 1, 2002 at 21:35. All the people aboard both crews were killed.
In 2004, Vitaliy Kaloev killed Skyguide air traffic controller Peter Nielsen, whom he considered responsible for the plane crash.
Kaloev himself actually admitted his guilt. The court sentenced the Russian to 8 years in prison, but in November 2007, Kaloev was released ahead of schedule.
Vitaliy Kaloev, today, a new family: after the tragedy
After the collision of two planes, litigation between the airlines began.
Bashkir Airlines sued the Federal Republic of Germany for using the services of foreign commercial organizations, and Skyguide for employee negligence and equipment malfunction.
During the investigation, Peter Nielsen was not fired and still continued to carry out his job duties.
Winterthur, the insurer of the Swiss airline, paid $150,000 in compensation to the families of the victims.
After the incident, Vitaliy Kaloev lost the meaning of life, which was in the family. Almost every day, heartbroken father spent at the cemetery. Work has lost its meaning for him.
The only thing Vitaly saw as a goal for himself was ordinary human apologies and the admission of his guilt by Peter Nielsen, who, according to the man, is to blame for the tragedy. The dispatcher escaped with only a fine and continued to work at Skyguide, living normal life with his wife and small children.
In the summer of 2003, Vitaly came to Skyguide in search of justice. The man hoped to wait for an apology for the broken life. According to the memoirs of the director of the Swiss organization, Allen Rosier, Vitaly behaved excitedly, constantly asking the dispatchers if Nielsen was to blame for what had happened. He also sought a meeting with Peter, who worked that day, but was refused.
On February 24, 2004, Nielsen died from 12 stab wounds on the threshold of his own house in the presence of his relatives. Kaloev did not admit to what he had done, but he did not deny his guilt either, because, due to a clouding of his mind, he does not remember what happened that day.
The Swiss court sentenced Kaloev to 8 years in prison, proving that he killed the dispatcher. When Vitaly Konstantinovich was serving his term, letters from all over the world from unknown people arrived in his name in prison, who expressed their condolences to the prisoner. There were so many messages that they were counted by weight. For 2 years, about 20 kg of letters have accumulated, which the architect took after his release.
In the fall of 2008, Vitaly was released ahead of schedule for good behavior. In Russia, this man was greeted as a real hero. Kaloev admits: he was pleased that hundreds of people supported him, but he himself does not consider himself a hero and does not want to be pitied.
In Russian cinema, they could not get past the story of Vitaly Kaloev. Sarik Andreasyan became the director of the drama "Unforgiven", in which the main character was presented on the screen by Dmitry Nagiyev. The premiere took place on September 27, 2018. The performer himself leading role considers this work the best in his creative career.
Vitaliy Kaloev, today, a new family: a new family
After his release, Vitaly managed to establish a personal life.
The man found new love and in 2012 he married a second time. His wife was Irina Dzarasova, an engineer at OAO Sevkavkazenergo. The wedding was attended only by relatives of the newlyweds.
Now Kaloev and his wife live in the house that Vitaly built for the first family. This is a large building with many rooms, stucco made in the national style. The architect built the mansion with the hope that his children and grandchildren would live here.
The fact that he married again, Kaloev did not hide, but he did not talk about it widely either.
Vitaliy Kaloev said that his new wife's name is Irina and that the wedding took place according to the Ossetian rite.
“If there was an Ossetian wedding, then that’s it. And the registry office is some kind of piece of paper. You go, put a stamp and that's it. At our wedding, all relatives gather. Everyone already knows. This is a registry office for us ... I didn’t get on my knees. Said I want to start a family. Do you want or not? Simply put."
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Vitaliy Kaloev native North Ossetia, where his biography began in 1956. Vitaly was born into a family of teachers: his father worked as a teacher of the Ossetian language, and his mother was a teacher. When Vitaly was born, the Kaloevs' house was already filled with children's laughter and fun. In addition to him, two brothers and three sisters grew up in the family. He was the youngest.
Biography
The Kaloevs' house was full of books. Vitaly's childhood passed with them. His parents noticed his talent from an early age: already at the age of 5 he could recite a verse by heart, which his brothers and sisters could not boast of.
Kaloev graduated from high school with honors. Next will be:
- Construction College.
- Military service.
- After the army, Vitaly receives higher education. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the North Caucasian Mining and Metallurgical Institute.
Already during his studies, Vitaly began to earn extra money. He worked as a foreman, and his team takes part in the construction of a military camp near Vladikavkaz.
Years of study and practice are not in vain, and in the late 80s, Kaloev creates his own construction cooperative. Career goes up and Kaloev is invited to head the construction department in the capital of North Ossetia.
Vitaly Kaloev
Vitaly met his future wife Svetlana at a bank where she served as director. And in 1991 the wedding took place. During family life Kaloev had a son and a daughter. Nothing foreshadowed trouble, and in the spring of 2002 the architect left to work abroad by profession. In Spain, Vitaly is engaged in the construction of houses.
Tragedy
In the summer, after a long separation, his wife and children decide to go to her husband. But the flight to Barcelona was canceled and no tickets were purchased. But three hours before the flight, Svetlana manages to buy tickets for a Bashkir Airlines flight.
Kaloev family
But Kaloev did not manage to meet with the family. The plane on which his wife and children were flying crashed in Germany, not missing an oncoming flight. At the time of the tragedy, Kaloev's son was 11 years old, and his daughter was 4 years old. Then 70 people died. Most were on board. Kaloev recalls that already at 10 am on July 2, 2002 he was at the scene of the accident.
The cause of the tragedy was called the mistake of the Swiss air traffic controller. But despite this, Peter Nielsen, who was accused of the disaster, continued to work and was not fired. Kaloev sought justice. In 2004, he knocked on the air traffic controller's door. The result of the meeting was a murder. Kaloev inflicted 12 fatal stab wounds to Nielsen, after which he died.
As Kaloev himself recalls, he had no intention to kill. He brought with him photographs of the deceased family and wanted a fair apology. More than this he could not do for his family, could no longer stand up for them. Kaloev said in his interviews that if he had not taken any action then, he would not have been able to continue to live in peace on this earth.
Vitaly Kaloev with his wife and child
When Kaloev began to explain himself to the Swiss, he did not even want to listen to him, knocking the photographs out of his hands and ordering him to get out. Then, according to Kaloev himself, he lost his mind: pain, resentment and all unbearable feelings flared up in him in an instant.
Vasily Kaloev was sentenced to 8 years, but served less and was released early for good behavior in 2008. Then a lot of people supported him. Kaloev recalled that when he was released, he was allowed to take with him the letters that he received during his stay in prison, but should not exceed 15 kg. He took off all the envelopes and left everything superfluous, but the weight of the correspondence still exceeded the permitted norm and amounted to 20 kg.
Life after
Today Vitaly Kaloev new family. He married a second time after 13 years. The wedding took place according to all traditions native land Kaloev. The architect himself said that the registry office had no meaning for him and meant only an empty formality.
In 2017, the film "Consequences" was released with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role. The plot was based on the events of 2002, and the hero of Schwarzenegger became the prototype of Kaloev himself.
But Vitaly was not impressed by the film. According to the architect the protagonist not truthfully conveyed all his feelings. Kaloev said that throughout the film, Schwarzenegger always asks for something, but he did not go and did not ask for anything. He demanded a fair investigation and an apology.
In the summer of 2019, another film was released that tells about the tragic events. The picture was filmed in, and Dmitry Nagiyev became the main character, personifying Kaloev. Information spread in the press that Kaloev himself asked Nagiyev not to make him look like a coward. But the architect denied this information, saying that he had never met Nagiyev. He was contacted by the director of the film, with whom they talked for several minutes and that was it.
Answering journalists' questions, Vitaly Kaloev says that he wants to be left alone. He admits that the pain of loss does not go away anyway. Despite the fact that today Vitaly Kaloev has a new family, he shares that the feeling of loss can be dulled, but will remain with him forever.
