Tupolev-154, dislocated back Russian Airlines


For more than a quarter century, Tupolev-154 aircraft have been the backbone of Russian air transportation system and the Soviet Union. This aircraft has been exported and operated by at least 17 foreign airlines. Tupolev-154 plane is a standard for the domestic flight routes in Russia and former Soviet Union other countries.

Tupolev-154 (Tu-154) used in commercial start 1972, and modernized in 1986 with the new machines and equipment to improve fuel consumption and flight operations. Tu-154 is made to replace the Tu-104 motorized turbojet.

Site airliners.com mention, Tu-154 planes are three-engine jet with a flight distance for the middle. Tu-154 is designed to be flying in the area with the air control and air navigation equipment that is not lerlalu good weather conditions and extreme arctic (polar), especially in the area north of Russia.

Tu-154 long reach 47.9 meters by 11.4 meters high. Wing expanse reached 37.55 meters. This aircraft can carry 158-164 people.

Approximately 1000 aircraft Tu-154 has been created since 1968, and many are still operating in Russia. Is the latest production of Tu-154M, which is flying the first time in 1982. Tu-154 variant, among others, Tu-154A, Tu-154B, Tu-154B-1, Tu-154S, Tu-154M and Tu-154M-100.

Until June 2009, total 247 Tu-154 and all variannya still operate. Major airlines that operate such Aeroflot (16), UTair Aviation (21), KrasAir (15), Kyrgyzstan Airlines (10), Uzbekiztan Airways (6), Ural Airlines (10), and Azerbaijan Airlines (5).

Accident

Since the first time to operate, has 28 Tu-154 aircraft that were lost in various accidents. Have recorded 63 serious accidents involving the Tu-154, six of them due to terrorist and military action.

Five aircraft downed by enemy or terrorist attacks in Lebanon, Georgia, and Afghanistan during the civil war broke out in the countries of that. In 2001, a Tu-154 plane fell in the Black Sea after dihantam rudal the Ukrainian military exercise ditembakkan time.

Tu-154 accidents recorded in the first 30 September 1975. A Malev flight from Budapest to Beirut in the fall near the Lebanon coast. All passengers of 50 people and 10 crew killed.

Since 2000 until now have been nine accidents that befall Tu-154. On 4 July 2001, Vladivostok Air flight number 352 from Yekaterinburg to Vladivostok during a fall near Irkutsk, where the transit plane, and killed 145 people. Overwrite the current aircraft in Iran's Caspian Airlines plane fell at 16 minutes after the offshore base yesterday and killed 168 people.

Outside of all accidents, it seems Tu-154 will still operate in Russia and former Soviet countries for a decade to come

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