Not the best demonstration

[Gr.Viper]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18004097

Sukhoi Superjet 100 missing for 3 hours in a planned 30 minute demo flight.

Latest reports say that there's no response whatsoever on any frequencies.

Edited May 9, 2012 by Gr.Viper

[B52STRATO]

This will cause big problems to Sukhoi... and once again to the Russian civil aviation industry, poorly.

[Toryu]

This will cause big problems to Sukhoi... and once again to the Russian civil aviation industry, poorly.

 

Why?

There could be about a million reasons for an airliner to crash.

CFIT being one of the more propable ones.

[Gr.Viper]

Search stopped until dawn. Cell phones of two reporters on board receive calls, but no one picks up.

[Slartibartfast]

Report says they were flying in the vicinity of a mountain good chance of CFIT... not the fault of the Jet...

[B52STRATO]

Why?

There could be about a million reasons for an airliner to crash.

CFIT being one of the more propable ones.

 

 

Maybe because unlike the airliners designed outer-Altantic the West continued to be wary of aircraft designed in the states of the former USSR. The SSJ was an opportunity to start a real breakthrough on this space. And that the press tends to seriously affect the demand in terms of what travelers (without real knowledge) think of an aircraft. Airliner shot down, CFIT, hijacking, hard landing, most people do not care whether it's crew, the aircraft or the ground control who is at fault, they only see a crash.

Edited May 9, 2012 by B52STRATO

[Gr.Viper]

The first pilot is the guy who took the test Superjet on its maiden flight 6 years ago (almost to date, May, 19th 2008).

Edited May 9, 2012 by Gr.Viper

[MigBuster]

blimey - Lets hope they all come back okay

[Toryu]

And that the press tends to seriously affect the demand in terms of what travelers (without real knowledge) think of an aircraft. Airliner shot down, CFIT, hijacking, hard landing, most people do not care whether it's crew, the aircraft or the ground control who is at fault, they only see a crash.

 

They hear of a crash and forget about it two days later.

It's not the 1970s anmore, when people would get sweaty palms, when hearing the words "DC-10" (and even then, this was not a major issue).

 

The Superjet is also not just a "russian" airliner - it is composed of numerous sub-contractors' work form the West.

 

The cockpit is made by Thales (that's why it looks like an Airbus-rip off at first, second and third glance). The FBW is from Liebherr and the engines are made by a colaboration of SNECMA (the guys that build CFM56 engines together with GE) and Saturn (a russian company).

 

This airplane is not your father's russian airliner.

 

 

I will agree that airliners that aren't built by western companies have a somewhat rougher start than designs by well-established companies.

But history has shown that new competitors can self-establish themselves quite quickly.

[B52STRATO]

I will agree that airliners that aren't built by western companies have a somewhat rougher start than designs by well-established companies.

But history has shown that new competitors can self-establish themselves quite quickly.

 

+1 Agree too, as the two major long-range airliners slap their fingers together, others take the short-range market. I just hope the SSJ will keep all his chances to break into orders.

[Gr.Viper]

Here's a short chart of what foreign companies are involved in Superjet http://ria.ru/infografika/20120509/644914882.html

 

Meanwhile the plane's been found. Looks like CFIT, into a nearly vertical mountain side, so that the fragments are both at the collision point and scattered below.

[JediMaster]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18015534

[MigBuster]

[+Typhoid]