Russia's transport safety regulator is investigating the cause of a fatal fire which broke out on the 1st January on a Tu-154B Kolavia aircraft before the flight took off from Surgut to Moscow. This event comes after the emergency landing of a Tu-154 at Domodedovo airport at the start of December. The cause for this tragedy was engine failure and the plane broke up on landing, killing two and injuring more than 80 passengers.
As a result of these tragic events and many others, Russia’s transport safety regulator has banned all Tu-154B planes from taking off until further notice. Aeroflot is Russia’s national airline and it stopped operating its remaining 23 Tu-154 aircraft in January 2010.
Monday 17 January 2011
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