Russia - Most Dangerous place to fly....

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by JU_88

When you say 'pilot error or other problems' - what other problems? maintenance perhaps?

Generally, if you can pin it down to a maintenance problem, now it is not the pilot's fault, would it?

Anyway, there are some problems with traffic control (the ancient Russian airacraft that are crashing are generally in the Russian boonies, while the newfangled Boeings and Airbuses get relatively nice facilities like Domodevo and international routes).

The video covers why the crashes are usually blamed on pilot error, its to protect what is left of the industry. The Video does have a certain amount of spin, but it doesnt change the fact that Russian Civil aviation is not in good health.

Oh, I agree, and its health is not improved by this video. This film is only half a step up from those Japanese netizens who almost laughed out loud when those two Chinese high-speed trains collided a couple months ago.

We are talking about human lives at stake, so better to either swallow ones pride and buy better maintained planes from abroad...
- OR someone needs to give the Russian Civil Aviation some serious invenstment so they can produce more than 1 new plane a year and start exporting.
But with the failure rate of Russian airliners so proportionally high, it gives them a bad reputation, making it harder to compete with Airbus and Boeing who dominate the market.

But Remember we should remember that we are only talking about Russian civil aviation, its military Aviation is doing just fine

Call me a Russophile but in the long run Option 2 is probably better for Russia. They need some competitive secondary industry, and since it would never be cars, personal computers, VCRs or the like, at least with planes they have a chance.

They really need a break, away from Americans who make this kind of film, so their new generation planes can actually get rolling and replacing the older generation planes.