800 have died in air accidents with TU-154 since 2000 – Tu.en

Over 800 people have been killed in air accidents with the Russian passasjerflyet TU-154 for the last 16 years.

the death toll does not include the latest accident, where a Russian plane with 92 passengers on board crashed in the Black sea on Sunday.

Designed in the 1960s

Tremotorsflyet with space for about 150 passengers, was designed in the 1960s, and has been a workhorse of the Russian air transportation for decades.

More than a thousand machines of this type of aircraft is produced, but after a series of accidents ordered the Russian government in 2011 that flymodellen should be phased out.

In 2010 killed 96 people, among them Polish president Lech Kaczynski when it crashed during the approach to the city of Smolensk in western Russia.

An international survey stated that the accident most likely was due to a

Tupolev Tu-154

• Tremotors passenger aircraft with a capacity of around 160 passengers.
• Manufactured by the soviet and later the Russian company Tupolev since 1968.
• the Tu-154 was the counterpart to the Boeing 727.
• It is produced more than 1000 copies of the aircraft, which are in a variety of flavors. In excess of 200 of the planes are still used.
• the Aircraft was designed to fill the need of the soviet airline Aeroflot. The company uses no longer the model.
• It was a Tu-154 that crashed in Operafjellet on Svalbard in 1996. 141 people lost their lives in the worst plane crash on Norwegian soil ever.
• In 2010, crashed a Tu-154M on approach to the Russian Smolensk. Among the 96 who lost their lives was Poland’s president Lech Kaczynski and several Polish top politicians, officials and officers.

pilotfeil, but the incident promoted the notion that the TU-154s heyday was over long ago.

a Few months before the flykrasjen had the Russian airline Aeroflot announced that they would retire flymodellen, which is now rarely used in civil aviation.

Known choir in the crashed plane

Sunday downed a Tupolev Tu-154 plane in the Black sea. 92 passengers, where most were members of the internationally known choir Aleksandrov-ensemble that would entertain the Russian military power in Syria, were on board.

plane crash site has been located. There are no signs of survivors, says the ministry to the local news agencies.

the Aircraft was on the way to a Russian air base in Latakia in Syria, crashed in the Black sea shortly after take-off after refueling at the Adler-Sochi airport, says spokesman Igor Konasjenkov on the ministry’s website.

Just two minutes after the aircraft took off around the clock, the 5.25 local time, it disappeared from the radar, tells the spokesperson, who adds that the aircraft had been in service since 1983 and has flown more than 7000 hours.

the Russian authorities to preclude terrorism, and president Vladimir Putin has ordered full investigation of the flystyrten.