Who is Prigozhin’s flight attendant Kristina Raspopova? Stewardess who told of mystery jet repairs before doomed flight
YEVGENY Prigozhin’s flight attendant told of unexplained repairs being made to the warlord’s jet before it crashed.
Stewardess Kristina Raspopova is understood to be one of the ten people who died on the doomed flight.
Who was Kristina Raspopova?
Kristina Raspopova was a flight attendant.
It is understood the 39-year-old worked on Prigozhin‘s private jet, a white and blue Embraer Legacy 600 business plane.
According to her Facebook page, she lived in Moscow and was also born in Russia‘s capital.
It also indicates she went to a private school before studying at Moscow Finance and Law University.
Her page also says she had got divorced and used the surname Yadrevskaya.
What did she say before the flight?
Before the plane crash on Wednesday, August 23, 2021, Kristina told her relatives about a hold-up.
She posted a final photo on her Facebook page waiting at an airport cafe waiting to board the jet.
Before getting on the flight, she spoke to her family and told them of a mystery hold-up.
She suggested the aircraft was being “repaired” before the flight, according to VChK-OGPU Telegram channel.
One of Kristina’s relatives said: “She said that she was in Moscow, she was going to fly out, today or tomorrow.
“The aircraft was under maintenance or some urgent repairs.
“They were waiting for the flight. Some kind of maintenance, well nothing special.
“They flew in and were about to take off. There was nothing wrong.
“It seemed like she had been there for a while. That is at least a couple of days.”
They added: “She said that the flight was domestic. They were waiting for a call when to fly.
“Regarding the maintenance of the aircraft, she said that either it was maintenance, or it was just an aircraft repair, something like that.
“They were waiting for the order to take off.”
Who else was killed in the crash?
Wagner boss Prigozhin was presumed dead after the flight, as well as his deputy Dmitry Utkin.
Others understood to be on the stricken flight were security chief Valery Chekalov, officers Sergei Propustin and Nikolai Matyuseev, and bodyguards Yevgeny Makaryan and Alexander Totmin.
According to reports, pilot Aleksei Levshin and co-pilot Rustam Karimov also died in the crash.
None of the bodies recovered from the crash site have been identified yet.
It is understood DNA testing is taking place as the corpses are so badly burnt.
Wagner boss Prigozhin had enraged Vladimir Putin after denting his authority by staging a short-lived coup just two months ago.
It has led to speculation the rebel’s jet was blown out of the sky in an act of revenge from the Russian leader.
UK intelligence source said the tyrant had ordered his FSB secret service to assassinate his former friend.