The Star
Monday 25th February, 2013
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Sukhoi Superjet 100 failed to take off from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport after one of its engines malfunctioned, Interfax reported, further clouding the future of Russia’s first post-Soviet civil plane project. The Superjet programme hit uncertainty last year after one of its planes crashed in Indonesia during a promotional flight, which investigators said was due to pilot error and Jakarta air traffic control’s lack of a minimum safe altitude system. Russia’s Aeroflot, the only airline operating the aircraft so far, also grounded four of its 10 Superjets earlier this mon…
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