There has always been a strong suspicion that the young Georgian airman Ambako Sagaradze, who was piloting the plane, crashed deliberately, killing himself and his passengers. Another version linked Joseph Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria with Mogilevsky's death.
For a considerable time, it was widely thought that Georgian pilot Ambako Sagaradze deliberately brought down the plane, resulting in his own death and that of his passengers. Another theory posited that Joseph Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria were involved in Mogilevsky's tragic fate.