Conley
05-14-2012, 09:42 AM
The crash of a new, Russian-made jetliner into a jagged, Indonesian volcano during a flight to impress potential buyers threw doubt on dozens of plane sales just as Moscow seeks a comeback in foreign markets.
All 45 people aboard were feared dead.
Search and rescue teams climbed through the mist-shrouded, jungly terrain for nearly 20 hours to reach the site where the plane roared in at nearly 800kmh Wednesday, exploding and raining debris down a nearly vertical slope.
When the weather clears, bodies will have to be hoisted by nets and ropes onto hovering choppers, said Gagah Prakoso, a spokesman for the national search and rescue agency.
"We're still searching for survivors," he said. "But it doesn't look good."
The Sukhoi Superjet-100 — Russia's first new model of passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago — was supposed to kick-start the nation's efforts to modernise its fleet and resurrect its neglected aerospace industry.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/6893190/Wreckage-of-missing-Russian-jet-found
Not a good maiden voyage.
All 45 people aboard were feared dead.
Search and rescue teams climbed through the mist-shrouded, jungly terrain for nearly 20 hours to reach the site where the plane roared in at nearly 800kmh Wednesday, exploding and raining debris down a nearly vertical slope.
When the weather clears, bodies will have to be hoisted by nets and ropes onto hovering choppers, said Gagah Prakoso, a spokesman for the national search and rescue agency.
"We're still searching for survivors," he said. "But it doesn't look good."
The Sukhoi Superjet-100 — Russia's first new model of passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago — was supposed to kick-start the nation's efforts to modernise its fleet and resurrect its neglected aerospace industry.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/6893190/Wreckage-of-missing-Russian-jet-found
Not a good maiden voyage.