Posted on 05/09/2012 6:00:04 AM PDT by Perdogg
A state-of-the-art Russian Superjet has vanished from radar screens in Indonesia amid speculation it has crashed or been hijacked with 36 foreign nationals on board.
A major air search has begun but darkness has prevented any hope of spotting the jet - if it has crashed - in mountainous country near Jakarta.
On board the Sukhoi Superjet-100 were eight Russians and 36 foreign nationals.
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What’s the deal with the Russkies and ‘airplanes’ as of late? Creepy.
WTF? Did the "Super Jet" designers forget to put in a gas gauge?
ML/NJ
When Ivan fails he fails big.
Possibly, mass suicide-by-plane.
Russian government officials do seem to have a rash of strange suicides.
Obvious question: How tall are those mountain peaks?
2900 miles will take you a long way ~ but I'd bet a sudden puff from a volcano too out this plane.
I don’t know much about Russian aviation, but it sounds like this plane performed flawlessly, Comrades.
I celebrate the Russian peoples for creating the first successful stealth commuter air bus!
/sarc....
Who built the engines?
Every time there's a big earthquake offshore the eruption schedules of the volcanos changes.
Smart guys don't fly directly over the plume areas at night.
The Muzzies screw with Mad Vlad Putin at their own peril.
Perhaps we lack any leaders who are willing to nuke Mecca, but that is not true of the Russkies and the ChiComs.
That’s a great picture showing all the systems, and their representative consultants and sub-contractors. There seems to be one system missing from the diagram, though. I’m referring to the hardening of the cockpit wall between cockpit and zoo...er... I mean, passenger area.
Thanks for the graphic. Just look at the number of Russian, Chinese, Cuban and NORK suppliers of components in the aircraft! What exactly does Sukhoi make in this aircraft?
Well there you have it. Maybe they should start.
“as of late?”
Huh? Russian flying junk has falling out of the sky since after WWII. Not a year goes by that some Russian passenger plane doesn’t crash.
I think the Russians & the Soviets before them have a really serious quality control problem.
I think the Russians & the Soviets before them have a really serious quality control problem.
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So true. Chernobyl comes to mind as well.
What number of Super Sukhoi SuicideJet 100’s have entered service? How many units have been sold to date tet68? How many more airplanes can we expect to crash? I vaguely remember the UK’s Comet, which lost it’s wings shortly after taking off on it’s maiden flight. That pretty much ruined the commercial future for the Comet. However, the UK military and NATO took a strengthened Comet into the 21st Century before it was retired as a submarine hunter and AWAKS platform.
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