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5th May 2011, 22:15
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TU-154 behaving badly (Video footage)
The BBC News website has some quite extraordinary footage of an old TU-154 filmed on April 29 this year that makes a rollercoaster look positively tame...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13286479 The plane behaviour is under investigation, as you would expect. I would imagine that it was a very uncomfortable ride for the crew. The 154 was, at one time, the workhorse of the Soviet, and post Soviet, airlines, only a handful are still in service amongst the lesser known regionals. Apparently this plane was on the way to a maintenance station when the fault happened....scary stuff to watch and the pilots need commending for keeping the plane in the air under such circumstances.
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6th May 2011, 17:45
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In this report from RiaNovosti, Russian Air Force chief Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin has stated that the plane 'behaved in such a manner because its control system failed in the air' and that the crew would be 'decorated for valor & courage' for getting the plane onto the runway in one piece....personally I think the crew handled the situation - which looked scary enough from the ground, let alone what it must have felt like in the cockpit - with remarkable skill & they certainly deserve to be congratulated.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110506/163897006.html Its also good to read that the result of the investigation will be made public too, despite the aircraft being a part of the Russian Air Force fleet.
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There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
~ Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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