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CONTROL TOWER -the newest scheme which is completed and changed with data and photographs thanks to LupusREBEL .............................................................................................................................(retired member from the 1st brigade "Tigers" of the Croatian Army). ..old schema and data here.

For schema in full size click on the schema itself or here.
	Solar lamp which was placed by LupusREBEL on this antenna column represent the highest symbolic of his visit to this place. Few more panoramic pictures from forest on the slope of Pljesevica mountain.

Upper station of the elevator, metal "cork" from stuff up material     Elevator shaft, recorded from the lower station of the elevator, on the top metal "cork" is visible

Lower station of the elevator where was the main explosion:

This video show passage from 124.th Fighting SQDN gallery through the corridor to the lower station of the elevator:

The look on the left side of the window Window of the control tower today Window of the control tower today The look on the right side of the window     Window detail with movable armour plate Burned interior of the CT-today The look through the control tower window before The look through the control tower window before

(1) The doors which lead from CT interior to passage toward terrace (2) Passage toward terrace (3) Ventilation shaft CT-->passage     (4)Burned chair in the passage Part of the ventilation system in passage (5) The look on the CT entering doors

Waste-paper-basket, he didn't burn out!	(6) Coffe cooker(?) and cleaning equipment(!?)	(7) local room in the passage	(8) Armoreud doors on the exit passage-->terrace	(9) Ventilation above the armoured doors
(10)Terrrace with no floor(!)	The look on the terrace before the entrance 3	The look on the terrace before the entrance 3	The look on the terrace before the entrance 3

(11) The look on the wall behind which is AFC

Very similar look from before

Very similar look from before

Very similar look from before

On the terrace of the AFC-a (26.10.1989.) sit: - colonel general Anton Tus - Dragutin Zelenovic, member of exYU presidency - colonel Pejic Borislav, stand; - major-general Zivan Mircetic. Source of photo; -->Cyber Fulcrum (forum RV i PVO)

	(1) (2) ()     <---Below this fence is placed the control tower windows
Base of the column where was placed LupusR solar lamp Disrupt electric cables nearby Improvised observation post Dens forest around this position Dens forest around this position Dens forest around this position

The room for filtering air which is lead from the outside by force through the ventilation shaft who lead to the surface. Specifity here is 2 concrete bath with quartz sand which can be seen in all clima chambers inside the underground facility "Klek".

(1) The look on the double aromored doors from inside of the CT (2) Concrete baths with quartz sand (4) Air throtle for outside air     (3) The look inside the room with concrete baths

Few more LupusREBEL pictures from the control tower:

Control lamps from the control tower, this black was probably some green light(?)

Especially interesting dicovery of the LupusREBEL was existence of 3 concrete trench which is placed above and beside entrance/exit 3, they are under 3 line of barbed wire(?).
One of possible usage of these trenches is maybe for demolishing and burying entrance(s) in the underground object with explosive.
If that's correct then it's clear that exYugoslav Peoples Army on purpose didn't destroy airfield completely and that also other 3 entrances probably do have similar trenches.
In view of fact that runways 1, 2 and 4 don't have great demage on infrastructure and that one big fuel tank isn't destroy than is pretty obviusly that exYPA main task here
was to temporarily disable airfield with second aim that Serb forces return here sometime in close future.

	Trench A Trench B ()Trench B-stairs
Trench B Trench B )Trench B-stairs Wires around trench B Wires around trench B

Situation with data before then LupusREBEL climb to the Control tower

For schema in full resolution click here or schema itself. Interesting detail from the elevator shaft is maintenence stairs (handles), position 16 on scheme, which look like cut off before whole object was destroyed. Photographs from the right side clearly shows the remains of that stairs and fact that all of them were been damaged during destruction of the object is hard to imagine. More likely sound fact that they had been cut off on purpose because of harder approach to CT from this side.Approach from the outside is only possible over the soft ground which was undermine for sure. Control tower terrace.(source-->Cyber Fulcrum forum)

Elevator shaft (thanx to Hrvoje from www.motori.hr for upper 2 pictures) What is hiding up there?? One, very possible, analyse of available pictures about CT which I recieved via e-mail(on Croatian...for now):

Very detailed pictures of the elevator shaft (thanks to author LESPGH) --->download link with this pictures in high resolution!(3471x2311 pixels)

Type of the stairs which were in the elevator shaft of CT, positions 16 and 17 on schema. (this photo is not from the AF Zeljava)     On the terrace of the AFC-a (26.10.1989.) sit: - colonel general Anton Tus - Dragutin Zelenovic, member of exYU presidency - colonel Pejic Borislav, stand; - major-general Zivan Mircetic. Source of photo; -->Cyber Fulcrum (forum RV i PVO)		Antenna column beside the terrace of CT
Position of the control tower in relation on an entrance 2. Toward CT lead an eleveator which had an entrance through the access corridor from the galery of 124th.Fighting SQDN. Location of that corridor and present state (2007.year) you can see here. Present state (2007.year) of the elevator shaft is here.
Photos below clearly shows that explosive was detonaded in front of the elevator entrance;