A psychic who died when a Russian passenger plane crashed near Moscow shortly after taking off last weekend apparently predicted his own death but misinterpreted the signs he saw in his crystal ball.
The mystic thought the spirits were urging him to cancel his birthday party but in fact they were warning him against boarding the doomed Russian jet, the Mirror reported.
Ilya Stavsky, 33, did not realise that he had witnessing the crash of the AN-148 plane when he looked into his orb.
Ilya Stavsky, 33, did not realise that he had witnessing the crash of the AN-148 plane when he looked into his crystal ball and saw impending disaster
The mystic thought the spirits were telling him to cancel his birthday party but they were actually apparently warning him against getting on board a doomed Russian jet
Stavsky, 33, believed that the crystal ball was telling him that if he had a party then he and his friends might be arrested
Remarkable CCTV footage appears to show the moment of the devastating An-148 crash and may give vital clues to crash experts seeking an explanation for the tragedy
The plane came down in Argunovo (pictured) shortly after taking off from Moscow on Sunday
Footage from the crash site showed parts of the plane in the snow after it came down near Moscow shortly after take-off
He was reported to have seen a large number of police officers in a field, images that were echoed days later when the flight he was on crashed.
The tragedy is believed to be due to instrument failure – they are thought to have frozen over and registered an incorrect speed, the TASS news agency quoted investigators as saying.
Ilya believed that if he had a party there was a danger that he and his friends might be arrested, The Mirror reported, so he was unaware of the impending tragedy when he boarded the flight in Moscow.
The Saratov Airlines flight exploded into a fireball shortly after taking off on Ilya’s birthday, scattering bodies and wreckage across the frozen Russian countryside.
All 71 people on board the flight were killed when it crashed into a field. It was a tragedy which some say he foresaw but did not interpret correctly.
The physic was travelling to his home city of Orsk in south-central Russia’s Orenburg Oblast region.
He had been in Moscow to see his his girlfriend Natalia, who he met while travelling in India.
He wanted to marry Natalia, even though a fellow psychic had told him that they were not destined to be together.
Natalia claims that just a day before the tragedy, Ilya looked into his magic ball but missed the warning signs.