Aerosvit Airlines
Well thank you for proving my point
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Tu-134 has had one mechanically-related crash, when the crew inadvertently shut down the operating engine after an engine failure. The Tu-154 has had three mechanical crashes, one to an engine fire, one from overstress caused by the malfunctioning autopilot, and one due to the use of a non-standard part. An-24s have crasehd twice since 1992 from engine failure. One Il-86 has crashed from an uncommanded elevator deflection. Some of those engine failures were no doubt caused by poor maintenance, which was endemic in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, rather than from design faults.
The accident rate has fallen because they started using western technology
Also you can not go on 1 by 1 ratio .The Soviet union produced around 1500 civilian planes in the last 40 years of the twentieth century compared to well over 10,000 in the west.
And still can you give me an accurate number of civilian russian made planes with major fatal accidents in that period. I know u can't because hundreds of accidents were never reported in the news. The few reported never got a clear reason beyond pilot error.
I have been on few russian planes in my time from TU to IL and one more i can not remember trust me those planes were not safe and you can ask any old pilot he will tell you so.
One more item Egyptair in the mid 70's refused to take deliveryof few TU154
the pilots refused to fly them as being very unsafe so the Tu company send there chief pilot to prove otherwise but the only thing he did was crash the plane killing himself and a bunch of Russian and Egyptian pilots.
Those planes stayed years in the open at Cairo airport before TU took them back
Last edited by SMART51; May 9, 2005 at 3:05 pm
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