A dark cloud was cast Wednesday on the revival of Russia’s aviation industry when a Sukhoi-built Superjet 100 with 50 people on board disappeared from the radar screens of Indonesian flight controllers. A dark cloud was cast Wednesday on the revival of Russia’s aviation industry when a Sukhoi-built Superjet 100 with 50 people on board disappeared...
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Bodies, No Survivors Spotted at Superjet Crash
Search and rescue helicopters and volunteers struggling through thick forest and mountainous terrain spotted bodies but no survivors on the Indonesian mountainside where a Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed by the time darkness forced an end to the search Thursday night. Correction appended Search and rescue helicopters and volunteers struggling through thick forest and mountainous terrain spotted bodies but no survivors on the Indonesian...
Superjet Black Box Found
Investigators on Wednesday were analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from the Superjet, which slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano. They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused last week's crash, which killed all 45 people on board. JAKARTA, Indonesia — Investigators on Wednesday were...
Climbers Think They See Superjet Flight Recorder
Indonesian special forces traversed the sheer slope of a volcano Monday after spotting what appeared to be the flight data recorder of a new Superjet that crashed during a demonstration flight for potential buyers. JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian special forces traversed the sheer slope of a volcano Monday after spotting what appeared to be the flight data recorder of a new Superjet...
Tabloid: Superjet Downed by U.S. Industrial Sabotage
A tabloid claims that Russian intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the U.S. military may have brought down the Sukhoi Superjet that crashed in Indonesia. Russian intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the U.S. military may have brought down the Sukhoi Superjet that crashed in Indonesia, according to claims in a tabloid. Citing sources in the GRU...
Ravine Scoured for Superjet's Missing Black Box
Indonesian special forces and professional climbers scaled down a treacherous ravine on a volcano face Sunday in search of a missing flight recorder that could explain the deadly crash of a Sukhoi Superjet 100. Indonesian special forces and professional climbers scaled down a treacherous ravine on a volcano face Sunday in search of a missing flight recorder that could explain the deadly crash of a Sukhoi Superjet 100. The Jakarta Post, citing...
Crash Deals Blow to Russian Aviation Revival
The hilltop crash of a Sukhoi Superjet ferrying journalists and dignitaries on a mission to drum up foreign sales in Indonesia potentially casts a shadow over Kremlin efforts to restore Russia's once-mighty aerospace industry. PARIS — The hilltop...
12 Bodies Found as Search Teams Reach Crash Site
Search teams have found at least 12 bodies on the steep slope of an Indonesian volcano where a Sukhoi Superjet crashed while demonstrating the plane for potential buyers from airlines. Search teams found at least 12 bodies Friday on the steep slope of an Indonesian volcano where a Sukhoi Superjet crashed while demonstrating the plane for potential...
Instruments Found at Crash
... not the voice-and-data recorder. The black box data could help explain what caused the deadly crash. Joint teams of Indonesian and Russian experts continued to comb through debris at the bottom of a 500-meter ravine on Tuesday afternoon. The Sukhoi Superjet is Russia's first passenger jet model since the fall of the Soviet Union. It was being demonstrated to potential buyers when it slammed into a cliff last week. (AP)
Remains of Russian Plane Crash Victims ID'd
... an Indonesian volcano. JAKARTA, Indonesia — Forensic experts say they have identified the remains of all 45 people on board the Russian plane that slammed into a jungle-clad cliff atop an Indonesian volcano. It's not clear what caused the Sukhoi Superjet 100 to crash during a May 9 demonstration flight for potential buyers. Authorities are still analyzing the cockpit voice recorder found at the bottom of a steep ravine. But they have given up hope of recovering the flight data recorder, which...
Protests Against Forest Road Score Few Victories
... forest,” said Znamenskaya, referring to the center’s investors. The center, jointly developed by Russian Technologies, is chaired by Sergei Chemezov, a Kremlin-connected official, and United Aviation Corporation, the company behind Sukhoi Superjet. The head of the center, Tigran Alexanyan, told Interfax in 2011 that the center would employ 11,000 workers and would become an “innovation zone,” similar to Skolkovo, focusing on the aviation industry. But critics question Alexanyan’s...
Airlines Push for Passenger Blacklist
..., airlines are looking to bolster passenger confidence after the country was ranked as the most deadly place in the world to fly in 2011, with nine crashes claiming 140 lives. Several more fatal crashes have occurred this year, including a brand-new Superjet that slammed into an Indonesian mountain during a demonstration flight last week, killing all 45 people on board. Among the flight violations in recent months, the captain and a flight attendant of a Magadan-Moscow flight operated by Yakutia...
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