Posted on 07/16/2021 3:32:19 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
All 18 people aboard an aging Russian passenger plane miraculously survived with only cuts and bruises after the aircraft was forced to make a hard landing and overturned in Siberia on Friday, officials said.
Rescuers who rushed to the area where contact was lost eventually located the survivors in a wooded section near the badly damaged plane, which was found upside down
Russian aviation safety standards have improved in recent years, but accidents, especially involving old planes in far-flung regions, are not uncommon.
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Siberian Tigers must be licking their chops.
Hate it when that happens. How do you say Dhooo! In Russian?
Probably. A little bodywork, some bondo, and boom! Recertified for flight. At least all the way to the crash site.
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—”Probably passing around bottles of vodka. I know I would be!”
And as a near teetotaler, I would be certain to take a slug!
When it comes to airplanes, age is completely relative. The youngest B-52 in the current USAF fleet already had been in service for 27 years before this plane was built.
—”The youngest B-52 in the current USAF fleet already had been in service for 27 years before this plane was built.”
And that reminded me of:
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — When Capt. Daniel Welch, 23rd Bomb Squadron Pilot, arrived at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., in January 2011, he became part of the same squadron his grandfather commanded in the 1970s, the 23d Bomb Squadron, a unit of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot.
https://www.minot.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/264580/three-generations-of-b-52-airmen/
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