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Old 09-07-2011, 04:26 PM
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aeroflot retired all it's soviet era tupolev's in 2009. they're still flown by smaller regional carriers and in some former soviet republic's.

no russia based airline can fly them beginning next year.

the newer tupolev's are supposed to be a lot more reliable. if you travel to that part of the world i'd be careful to make sure any plane you fly in is less than 20 years old.
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Old 09-07-2011, 04:32 PM
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The plane that crashed apparently went into service in 1993.

Like I said, lots of planes in service for American airlines are 20-30 years old; I'd think our standard of maintenance is just considerably higher.
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Old 09-07-2011, 08:20 PM
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Terrible story. The NHL has had quite a sad few months.
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Old 09-08-2011, 02:27 PM
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There were actually 2 survivors, including 1 player.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/r...-moscow-090811
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