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NewsCrashed Superjet’s erroneous angle-of-attack readings traced to swapped overlay plates
Swapping the angle-of-attack sensor overlay plates on a Gazpromavia Yakovlev Superjet 100 led to last year’s fatal accident as the jet was being ferried from Lukhovitsy to Moscow after a maintenance visit. Investigators from the Interstate Aviation Committee carried out several experiments and analyses in a bid to understand why ...
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NewsWrongly-maintained Superjet’s behaviour misled crew before overspeed and fatal dive
Russian investigators believe the crew of a Yakovlev Superjet 100 thought the aircraft was experiencing an air-data system fault relating to airspeed, rather than a highly-improbable angle-of-attack discrepancy, before the jet fatally dived into a forest about 6min after take-off. Simulations of the flight have led test pilots to conclude ...
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NewsGazpromavia crash: Superjet pilots urged to watch for unreliable angle-of-attack clues
Crucial to the investigation into the Gazpromavia Superjet 100 crash outside Moscow is whether the pilots could have saved the aircraft after its automatic stall-protection system pushed it into a fatal dive. Preliminary investigation indicates the Superjet, which came down in a forest on 12 July last year, was fed ...
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NewsSuperjet crash inquiry reveals angle-of-attack anomaly on second Gazpromavia aircraft
Unambiguous procedures for installing angle-of-attack sensors on Yakovlev Superjet 100s are being developed after the fatal crash of a Gazpromavia aircraft – as well as an earlier incident involving a sister ship. Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee has disclosed the urgent measures in its preliminary findings into the 12 July accident, ...
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NewsGazpromavia crash crew briefly arrested descent before Superjet entered fatal dive
Russian investigators have disclosed that the crashed Gazpromavia Yakovlev Superjet 100 crew switched to manual control after the aircraft started to pitch down, briefly arresting the descent, before it entered a steep fatal dive. The aircraft took off from Lukhovitsy airport, bound for Moscow Vnukovo, on 12 July following “periodic ...
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NewsSuperjet crash inquiry yet to clarify relevance of angle-of-attack sensor repair advisory
Investigators have yet to disclose preliminary findings from the fatal crash of a Gazpromavia Yakovlev Superjet 100, and have yet to clarify whether an apparent communication on angle-of-attack vane maintenance is relevant to the inquiry. The Interstate Aviation Committee has started analysing data from the flight-data and cockpit-voice recorders retrieved ...
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NewsGazpromavia Superjet 100 crashes in forest outside Moscow
Russian investigators have opened an inquiry after a Yakovlev Superjet 100 suffered a fatal accident near the city of Kolomna. United Aircraft says the aircraft was performing a ferry flight on 12 July, without passengers on board. Kolomna is around 100km southeast of Moscow. Russia’s emergency situations ministry says the ...
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NewsGazprom emerges as first customer for Mi-171A3 offshore helicopter
Russian Helicopters appears to have a first customer lined up for the new A3 variant of its long-running Mil Mi-171 heavy-class rotorcraft after oil giant Gazprom signed up to the programme, although details of the agreement remain limited.
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NewsGazpromavia puts long-range Superjet into service
Russian carrier Gazpromavia has put its long-range version of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 into service, the first commercial operation with the variant.