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 mountainside...
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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 buyers from...
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. ...
Car Used by Top Road-Safety Cop in Moscow Crash
... crossed into an oncoming lane, it lost its driver's side mirror when it hit the driver's door of the Zhiguli, Izvestia reported , citing the Zhiguli's driver, identified only by his first name, Artyom. Traffic police officers, whose car was near the crash site, approached the BMW, and a man in a suit climbed out, the report said. The police returned the car's mirror to him, and he drove off. By Russian law, both drivers in an accident must stay in place until the traffic police have filled out a...
Instruments Found at Crash
... atop a dormant Indonesian volcano. National Transportation Safety Commission chief Tatang Kurniadi said they have found the emergency locator transmitter but 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...
Remains of Russian Plane Crash Victims ID'd
... 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 keeps track of...
Teens Get a Crash Course on Living in U.S.
Having proved their maturity, intelligence and adaptability to FLEX administrators, the teens accepted into the study abroad program must now prepare to make new lives from scratch in a foreign country. The Russian high school students listened eagerly to tips on living in the United States. Be communicative and polite, keep an open mind when encountering America's diverse forms of worship, and volunteer in your community, like millions of Americans. "Remember: It's not right, it's not wrong...
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, Russia's military...
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...
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 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...
Airlines Push for Passenger Blacklist
... bought tickets to Tel Aviv to protest Israel's presence on territory claimed by the Palestinians. In Russia, 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...
Airlines Race to Recruit Pilots Amid Shortage
Russia has been widely touted as the world's most deadly place to fly after a series of air crashes. The Russian aviation industry faces another pressing issue that may eventually compound safety problems – a shortage of personnel, especially pilots. Russia has been widely touted as the world's most deadly place to fly after...
Air Safety Violations Up 16% in 2011
... Yelena Glebova, the head of transportation and customs oversight in the prosecutor's office, in an interview with legal magazine Prokuror, RIA-Novosti reported. Russia ranked as the most dangerous country in the world in which to fly in 2011, with nine crashes claiming 140 lives, surpassing even the Democratic Republic of Congo for aircraft-related fatalities. The top reason for airplane crashes in Russia is errors made by airline personnel, which are to blame in 80 percent of cases, Glebova said. She...
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 that crashed...
Superjet Missing in Indonesia With 50 on Board
... “The pre-flight preparations were conducted fully and, technically, the plane was in good working order,” said a representative from the United Aircraft Building Corporation, which makes Superjets, according to RIA-Novosti. But a high-altitude crash was looking to be the most likely reason for the plane’s disappearance by Wednesday evening. “Although the plane was new and the onboard equipment was modern, it was still raw and had not been tested through to completion,” Roman...
Soyuz TMA-04M Blasts Off for Space Station
... launch, originally scheduled for March, faced more than a month of delays because of a problem with the hull of the Soyuz capsule that was caused during pressure tests. The Federal Space Agency has faced a series of recent launch failures, including the crash of the unmanned Russian Progress cargo vessel that broke up in the atmosphere in August and the loss of a $170 million probe, whose engines failed to break it out of Earth orbit to begin its mission to the Martian moon Phobos. After retiring its...
Ex-Throbbing Gristle Leading SKIF Lineup
... an experimental orchestra from London, will be the main act to perform on the second night. Featuring from eight to 14 members, the band performs a mixture of very diverse music styles. "Doom metal, disco, acid house and Donna Summer had a car crash on the highway to oblivion," Chrome Hoof's official biography states. "Chrome Hoof emerged from the wreckage, grooving." The Belgian-American-French trio Hoquets — pronounced "OK" — mostly play with instruments...
Kremlin Beating People to a Pulp
... was the reason they were beaten? While crossing the street along a pedestrian crosswalk, the Zorin brothers refused to yield to Aranson's oncoming car. Two weeks ago, the son of the Adygeya republic's traffic police chief killed two people in a car crash. And that was not the first time that the 18-year-old had been involved in a fatal car accident. On Friday, Gazprombank demanded that criminal charges be filed against blogger Svetlana Robenkova, who wrote in her blog that a car owned by the bank's...
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