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Russian Hockey Team Plane Crash Caused by Pilot Error: Investigators
Investigators revealed on Wednesday that pilot errors are likely to blame for a Russian Yak-42 airliner which crashed in western Russia in September, killing 44 people including the Lokomotiv hockey...
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Iran-Bound Radioactive Material Seized at Moscow Airport
Russia’s Federal Customs Service on Friday said it has seized radioactive material from the luggage of a man who was preparing to take a commercial flight from Moscow to Tehran. His whereabouts are...
View ArticleOn This Day in Aviation History: December 26th
1980 – Aeroflot introduces the Ilyushin Il-86, flying it on their Moscow-Tashkent route. 1975 – Russia’s answer to the Concorde, the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic transport begins operations for Aeroflot,...
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Final Call: Modern UAVs Grounded in Favor of 1950s Spy Planes, Psychics Say...
Photo of the Day: Taking a break from hauling 787 parts, the Boeing Dreamlifter (N249BA) gets some R&R in Miami. (Photo by Mark Lawrence) • The Obama Administration plans to ground and halt...
View ArticleRussia Tests Advanced New Air-to-Air Missile
The Russian Air Force on Tuesday tested a new advanced tactical air-to-air missile, officials said on Wednesday. Air Force Commander Colonel General Alexander Zelin said the new air-to-air missile will...
View ArticleTransaero Orders Four Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners
Russia’s Transaero Airlines and Boeing have finalized an order for four 787-8 Dreamliners in a deal worth $744 million based on list prices. The signing was completed aboard a 787 demo flight for...
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Rescuers Locate Crashed Sukhoi Superjet On Indonesian Mountain
The Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed in Indonesia on Wednesday has been located by rescuers, according to Sergey Dolya, who has been covering the rescue effort extensively from Jakarta. Exact...
View ArticleRussian Intelligence Blames United States For Superjet Crash
A week before rescuers found the plane’s flight data recorder on Thursday, Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency began claiming that the most plausible explanation for the May 9th crash of a Sukhoi...
View ArticleHelicopter Crash in Eastern Russia Kills At Least Three
A helicopter operated by UTair Aviation for an oil and gas company crashed in Russia’s Far East on early Wednesday evening, killing at least three of the four people on board, local authorities said on...
View ArticleAir France Concorde Crashes in Paris: July 25 in Aviation History
1909: French aviator Louis Blériot makes the first crossing of the English Channel with a heavier-than-air machine. The 37 minute flight from Calais to Dover was completed aboard Blériot’s own Blériot...
View ArticlePlane Crash in Russia’s Far East Kills 10
A small regional airliner crashed as it was preparing to land at an airport in northeastern Russia on early Wednesday afternoon, killing ten people and injuring four others, emergency officials said....
View ArticleSoyuz Returns to Earth After Mission to International Space Station
Three crew members from the United States and Russia landed safely aboard the Soyuz spacecraft in the central steppe of Kazakhstan early Monday morning, wrapping up a four-month-long mission to the...
View ArticleIraq Buys Russian Attack Helicopters and Anti-Aircraft Missiles in $4.2...
The Russian government will supply dozens of attack helicopters and mobile air-defense systems to Iraq in an arms deal worth more than $4.2 billion, making Russia the second-biggest weapons supplier to...
View ArticleHelicopter Missing Near Moscow Was Carrying Infamous Businessman
A search-and-rescue operation was launched Sunday after a private helicopter carrying at least three people, including a notorious businessman and the son of a former government official, went missing...
View ArticleRed Wings Airlines Plane Crash At Moscow Airport Kills Four
A Red Wings Airlines Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashed in Moscow Saturday afternoon, killing four people and seriously injuring all four others onboard. Red Wings Flight 9268, operated by aircraft...
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NYCAviation’s Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of 2012
10. American Airlines Baggage Handlers Took Apart Planes to Hide Drugs | October 22, 2012 | A former American Airlines baggage handler was sentenced to three life terms plus an extra 35 years for...
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Russia Plans Replacement For Soyuz Rocket
Russia plans replacement for Soyuz rocket (via AFP) Russia’s struggling space agency has unveiled a new program that will see the creation of a replacement for the ageing Soyuz rocket by 2020. The...
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Video: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 Crashes at Kazan; All Aboard Perish
NYCAviation has learned that at approximately 10:30 AM EST, Tatarstan Air flight U9-363/2B-363 from Moscow Domodedovo to Kazan Russia crashed after attempting a go-around from its second aborted (Video...
View ArticleIs This The Most Dangerous Takeoff Ever Captured On Video?
(Editor’s note: continuing with today’s theme of showboating pilots, our Throwback Thursday article this week takes a look at an incredibly dangerous and ill-advised (to put it mildly) takeoff from a...
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The Tupolev Tu-95, 62 Years Old & Still Going Strong
This article originally appeared on AirlineReporter.com. If it is possible to have a favorite aircraft, mine would be the Tupolev Tu-95. The story of the Tu-95 goes back to 1944. During the Great...
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