Breaking News: Russian Jet Crashed

[Dkdeath]

Its very hard for me to annouce thıs but a russian jet crashed near ukraıne kıllıng all passengers aboard (170 154 adults, six
children and 11 crew )
Quote:

A Russian passenger plane carrying 170 people has crashed in eastern Ukraine.

Thirty bodies have been found at the crash site, about 45km (30 miles) north of Donetsk, a Russian official said.

The Tupolev-154 was flying from southern Russia to St Petersburg when it disappeared from radar screens following a distress signal.

The airliner was in flames on the ground, Ukraine's emergencies ministry said. Rescue workers were heading to the scene.

The crew sent a distress signal at 1537 Moscow time (1137 GMT), and the plane disappeared from radar screens at 1539 (1130 GMT), Irina Andrianova of
Russia's Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass news agency.

The plane belongs to Pulkovo airlines, she said.

Ukrainian ministry spokesman Igor Krol said rescue teams had located the wreckage of the plane, Interfax news agency reported.

The plane had 160 passengers and 10 crew on board, and was travelling from the Black Sea resort of Anapa, emergency officials said.

Russian media reports said President Vladimir Putin had been informed of the crash.

The crash comes less than two months after at least 124 people died when a Russian Airbus A-310 skidded off a runway and burst into flames in the city
of Irkutsk in Siberia.

[Joeflyer]

Yep, heard about it already. How unfortunate

[the_nick]

here they said there were 160 passengers and 10 crew , anyway the numbers doesn"t matter it"s very sad for the people who are left
behind (there was a fire on board and they tried to land but the gear didn"t came down)

[jetdude43]

its not there fault, i heard the tupolev 154 is a very old aircraft, is that true?

[Landmark Airlines]

sad news wasn't the Tu-154 also know for not having a good safety record? and it was first flow around 1972, seems old to me



Post Edited ( 08-23-06 15:07 )

[jetdude43]

then what plane was it?

[m_estrugo]

It was a TU-154M. While the TU-154 series first flew in 1968, and entered commercial service in 1972, the -M series
was introduced in 1982 and continued in producion until this very year.

The Tu-154 is the russian equivalent to the 727 in size and performance, and has been kept in production for such a
long time because it's a very good, rugged, reliable design.

According with the info on airdisaster.com, the doomed Pulkovo was manufactured in 1992, so it wasn't as old as
media says. It's true that the plane's safety record is poor, but in general most of those accidents are attributed to faulty
mainteinance, human error and the extreme weather the model has to deal with, rather than a faulty design.

In general, media is really ignorant about aviation, so I look elsewhere for info about aviation-related news -or anything
that requires a certain technical knowledge. For instance, I remember I heard that the AA plane that crashed in NY shortly
after 9-11, 2001 was a "Boeing Air-bus" (!!). And, according with the media coverage of the day, the doomed Sybir Airlines
lost in Irkustk in July was no other than an A380!

Not too long ago, journalists would document themselves before saying something. Nowadays, they're pretty ignorant of
everything except what they're taught at college. :b