That’s a sales call gone bad. The Russians essentially killed all of the decision-makers.
Hello, Boeing?
Seriously, I don’t mean to make light of such a tragedy, condolences to the families.
Interestingly, a Boeing office was on my site the last 18 hrs straight, downloading everything
I was on this story from the start two days ago because I found it particularly interesting the Russians were planning export offensives in the civil aircraft industry.
But their industry under Putin is one Soviet-style 5-year-plans BUT also forced unions withing the Russian Federation’s aircraft companies... when the only good thing about that business in Soviet times was often fierce competition between the ‘design bureaus’, such as Mig, Ilyushin, Sukhoi, Yak, et al.... that was what brought-about some of their best designs, actually