Tupolev Tu-154

...mountains. Russian investigators said poor training was the primary cause of the crash. In 2006, 170 people were killed when a Tu-154 plane crashed in Ukraine on a flight to St Petersburg. (Reporting by Robin Paxton; Editing by Charles...

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...an Aeroflot Boeing aircraft died when the plane crashed in a ball of fire near the Ural mountains. In 2006, 170 people were killed when a TU-154 plane crashed in Ukraine on a flight to St Petersburg. An interior ministry press service...

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...of smaller aviation incidents over the last few weeks has raised concerns about the state of Iran's civil aviation. On Sept. 6, a Russian-made Tupolev-154 jet belonging to an unnamed airline made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff in...

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...strange alcoves at the back of the plane, it feels and smells like you are actually sitting in the toilet. A tour of the cockpit of a Tupolev 154 reveals a dense cluster of clunky knobs and glass dials surrounding two battered seats and a...

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...out updates to the cockpit about ice forming on the wings. Irina Danenberg, Aeroflot's spokeswoman, said Aeroflot was selling its Tu-154 jets because they burned so much fuel compared with Western planes, not because of safety...

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...study crash of Russian-made plane Iran's Press TV says flight data recorders of crashed plane damaged All 168 aboard killed when Tupolev Tu-154M went down near Qazvin TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- The bodies of 152 people killed in a fiery plane...

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...the cause of the disaster. Debris from the plane was littered around the crash site. Caspian Airlines flight 7908 -- a Russian-made Tupolev Tu-154M -- plunged to the ground and disintegrated minutes into its flight from Tehran to the...

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...nongovernmental organizations. Updated at 16 July 2009 23:18 Moscow Time The Moscow Times » Issue 4190 » News Relatives of the Tu-154 passengers waiting for bodies to be delivered to a cemetery near the crash site Thursday. Black...

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Archbishop Sebo Sarkissian of Iran's Armenian community was among those to take part. It was the third deadly crash of a Tupolev Tu-154 in Iran since 2002. Correspondents say Iran's civil and military air fleets are made up of elderly...

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A plane crash in northwestern Iran on Wednesday involved the Tupolev Tu-154 airliner, a Russian-built workhorse which went into service in 1972. Here are some details about the Tu-154 and its safety record: * The Tu-154 is the standard...

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