2 die in Russian jet emergency landing

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2 die in Russian jet emergency landing

40 injured as plane skids off Moscow runway


A jet airliner with 155 people on board skidded off the runway during an emergency landing at a Moscow airport on Saturday, killing two people and injuring about 40, Russian officials said.

The plane, a TU-154 belonging to Dagestan Airlines, was forced to land at Domodedovo Airport after its engines cut out, federal aviation agency spokesman Sergei Izvolsky said in televised comments.

The cause of the engine failure was unclear, he said.

Izvolsky said the plane had taken off from another Moscow hub, Vnukovo Airport, and was en route to Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's southern region of Dagestan.

Izvolsky said the pilot received signals that all three engines had cut out about 80 kilometres into the flight at an altitude of 9,100 metres, and requested an emergency landing at Domodedovo, to the southeast of Moscow.

The airport switched scheduled flights to a second runway, and normal service was not affected, officials said in televised comments.

Flagship carrier Aeroflot recently withdrew all of its TU-154s from service, after a series of crashes led to safety fears. But the Tupolev mid-range jets, which originally entered service in the 1970s, remain the mainstay of smaller airlines across Russia and the former Soviet Union. It is banned from Europe because of excessive engine noise.

The plane that crashed in heavy fog earlier this year, killing Polish President Lech Kaczynski, was also a TU-154.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/1...y-landing.html

[PiuYi]

RIP


any aviation experts here can comment on the plane?

[BlacknJean]

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[dogeatcookie]

Tu 154 is a pretty shitty plane, RIP to the victims.

[AccordCouped]

Originally Posted by BlacknJean

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[belka]

Not an expert, but a triple engine failure sounds like a fuel pump or flow issue. I'm not sure how the engines get their fuel, either through separate pumps or just one, but it doesn't seem like an engine issue. Russian jets and aviation in general is a joke. People think that their fighters and passenger planes rival their western counterparts because they look cool at airshows. In reality, they are nothing but flying coffins.

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Originally Posted by BlacknJean

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[GabAlmighty]

Originally Posted by belka

Not an expert, but a triple engine failure sounds like a fuel pump or flow issue. I'm not sure how the engines get their fuel, either through separate pumps or just one, but it doesn't seem like an engine issue. Russian jets and aviation in general is a joke. People think that their fighters and passenger planes rival their western counterparts because they look cool at airshows. In reality, they are nothing but flying coffins.

If they're anything like our twin Commanchees then everything is seperate, for this exactl reason.

I'd say the pilot did a pretty good job. Don't feel like looking up landing distanes and the length of the runway he landed on. But when you lose your engine on those jets you lose a very critical braking mechanism.

Landing a Cessna with no engines is easy, a jet... Probably not so much.

[Selanne_200]

When all engines are cut out, you no longer have the reverse thrust to help you stop and no brakes alone are going to stop an airplane loaded with ppl. That being said, russian aviation is a joke. i can't remember which plane it is but there's a plane that had an uneven number of engines between the 2 wings so the pilot needed full rudder on take off just so the plane will go straight. I guess they never thought what would happen if there's a crosswind.