I tweeted about the visibility boost to the Superjet 100 a few weeks back. It turns out that even other Russian/Ukrainian civil airliners have got a big, temporary visibility boost. The following screenshots show the number of views that Wikipedia articles of four Russian [or Ukrainian] civil aircraft got in last 30 days [Antonov An-148, Irkut MS-21, Tupolev Tu-204, Tupolev Tu-334].
Today's crash likely wouldn't have happened, and all those 92 souls likely would've been alive, had the Russians been using their own modern airliners instead of continuing to fly 30+ years old planes whose designs date back to the 60s. Unacceptable.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Russian_Defence_Ministry_Tupolev_Tu-154_crash
http://www.uacrussia.ru/en/aircraft/lineup/civil/superjet-100/
http://www.uacrussia.ru/en/aircraft/lineup/civil/il-96-300/
http://www.uacrussia.ru/en/aircraft/lineup/civil/tu-204sm/
It's high time that Russia retires all the legendary-but-old airliners it's still operating and switches to its own modern planes, thus also giving a boost to its domestic aircraft industry.