... 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 a series of air crashes. The Russian aviation industry faces another pressing issue that may eventually compound safety problems – a shortage of personnel, especially...

... the passenger nobody wants to sit beside — the abusive troublemaker who has perhaps had too much to drink and might put the flight at risk. Led by flagship carrier Aeroflot, the airlines want to start compiling blacklists of both passengers and pilots who have violated flight-safety rules. The blacklists would bring airlines more in line with the policies implemented by carriers in other countries, a State Duma deputy said Wednesday. But some industry insiders warned that the lists could be...

... sale of 48 of the craft to Indonesian carriers, the Jakarta Post reported. But industry watchers are predicting a serious impact on all global sales of the new jet, especially if the accident turns out to be a result of technical failure rather than pilot error. “We haven’t found survivors,” Gagah Prakoso, a spokesman for the search and rescue team, told Indonesia’s Metro TV on Thursday as he announced the discovery of the first bodies, Reuters reported. Difficult terrain...

A South African pilot who testified against a former associate, jailed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in a federal prison. A South African pilot who testified against a former associate, jailed Russian arms dealer...

... rule out the possibility that the aircraft was hijacked. Hope for the plane’s crew was kept alive by local media reports that two phones belonging to people on board rang when they were called, although no one picked up. The missing aircraft was piloted by Alexander Yablontsev, 57, with more than 25 years of aircraft experience, and Alexander Kochetkov, a test pilot who graduated from flight school in 2003. Yablontsev piloted the Superjet on its first test flight in 2008. “The pre-flight...

A prosecutor's office official said an investigation showed that pilots were flying who had not had the necessary training and that flight schools do not have adequate numbers of teachers, planes or flight simulators. The number of air safety violations in 2011 went up 16 percent, from 124,000 in 2010 to 144,000...

... aircraft project, the crash is likely to shake the confidence of the industry in a way that would be less common among Western firms whose accident rate is statistically lower. That could change if investigators find no technical fault. "If it was pilot error, then it is not a huge blow to the Russian aerospace industry. However, if it was a technical problem with the aircraft, then it could really affect customer perception of the aircraft and order capability," said Tom Chruszcz, a director...

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...

... he said. The Superjet — Russia's first new model of passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union — was in Indonesia as part of a six-nation tour of Asia aimed at getting new customers. Soon after takeoff from a Jakarta airport, the pilot was granted permission to drop from 3,000 meters to 1,800 meters, said Mulya Abdi, general manager of Air Traffic Control in Jakarta. The plane was 11 kilometers north of Mount Salak at the time, an area considered outside the danger zone around...

... 28, 1987, he had placed all his hopes for world peace in Mikhail Gorbachev. When Mathias Rust landed his white Cessna on Red Square on May 28, 1987, he had placed all his hopes for world peace in Mikhail Gorbachev. The 19-year-old amateur pilot from a well-to-do Hamburg suburb was aware of the risk he took by flying into Soviet airspace, then among the world's most tightly guarded. "I thought that if Gorbachev won't allow it, they would punish me," Rust, who is 44 today, told...

... onboard. For example, the plane is flying at one altitude, but after interference from the ground onboard equipment shows another," a GRU general told the paper. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 disappeared from radar screens on May 9 shortly after the pilot asked for permission to reduce altitude 1,800 meters — a dangerous maneuver in such a mountainous area. Its wreckage was later found on a spur of Mount Salak, a volcano that has been the site of numerous air crashes in the past. The claims...

... resurrect its aeronautics industry. The ill-fated Superjet was carrying representatives from local airlines and journalists on what was supposed to be a 50-minute demonstration flight. Just 21 minutes after takeoff from a Jakarta airfield, the Russian pilot and co-pilot asked for permission to drop from 3,000 meters to 1,800 meters. They gave no explanation, disappearing from the radar immediately afterward. It was not clear why the crew asked to shift course, especially since they were so close to...

... Znamenskaya and other forest defenders believe that the plans to build the road are connected with an ambitious effort to construct a transportation and logistics economic zone on the territory of the flight and research institute. The institute trains test pilots and hosts the MAKS aviation show and is at the heart of a plan begun in 2008 by then-President Dmitry Medvedev to build a $4.4 billion National Aviation Center. “They just used the road as a pretext to get into the forest,” said Znamenskaya...

... the parade, with the line of equipment stretching 1.5 kilometers. This year's parade will also see the new armored Lynx vehicle on Red Square for the first time, which will accompany the Topol-M strategic missile launchers in the procession. Aircraft piloted by veterans will fly over the parade with 1.8 ton flags streaming behind commemorating each branch of the Russian military. The parade started at 10:00 a.m. to the music of a composition called Holy War performed by a military orchestra composed...

... capital, for identification since Saturday. At least 20 plastic containers with fragments of bodies have been recovered, though the exact number of victims recovered was not known, search and rescue official Madya Daryatmo said, Interfax reported. The pilots’ remains were also found Saturday, hanging in a tree. Indonesia’s government has appointed six teams composed of 60 experts in forensics, fingerprinting, and DNA analysis in order to identify the victims, the Jakarta Post reported....

... film industry. "This is a complete puzzle to me. I know that he hosted a TV show, but I don't know what he has done for cinema," said film director Andrei Kavun, whose credits include the 2010 blockbuster "Kandagar," about Russian pilots who fled Taliban captivity in Afghanistan. He was echoed by director Pavel Bardin, best known for "Russia 88," a 2009 mockumentary about the rise of the neo-Nazi movement in the country. "State personnel decisions are showing once...

... the First in 1725 and awarded almost continuously until 1991. Among the other people whom Medvedev publicly recognized Thursday was cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, who was decorated with the country’s highest honor, the Hero of Russia, and the medal of Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation for his work on the International Space Station. Medvedev presented Vladislav Tretiak, president of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation and a former goaltender for the Soviet national team, with the order For Merit...

... records. After cost estimation of infrastructure deployment, including storage systems, scanning and character recognition systems and infrastructure solutions, the customer decided to outsource the entire business process. We are currently completing a pilot project that includes catalogue creation and the digitalization of tons of documents and will soon begin to provide access to them via a web portal as a cloud service. I strongly believe that cloud computing is the future of all outsourcing because...

... and it may be a game-changer. Russia is currently working hard on joining the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which would impose vital legal standards on Russia. Education and health-care reforms are already under way through pilot projects. With a new set of policymakers in charge of social policy — ­notably progressive social reformer Olga Golodets as deputy prime minister — substantial but quiet and pragmatic progress is likely. The latest news is that the degrees...

... questions. You live in Moscow, you've noticed there's nowhere to put your bottles, there's no waste sourcing of any kind. Is waste readily accessible to be used as alternative fuel in Russia? AV: Yes and no, you need to go brick by brick. We have pilot projects for municipal waste in the Kaluga area for the future. It's a long term project. We have started collection of oil sludge and this kind of waste in the Moscow region. Industrial waste is easier to collect. They are ready usually to give...