Indonesian rescuers found the wreckage of a Russian-made Sukhoi SuperJet 100 that crashed yesterday during a promotional flight with 50 people on board.
The debris was spotted by air around 5,800 feet up Mount Salak in West Java at about 8:30 a.m., Daryatmo, the head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, told reporters in Jakarta today. A ground team will fly to the site by helicopter.
“There has been a big impact, a total loss,” he said. There is ``no hope'' of finding any survivors, he said.
The plane disappeared from radar yesterday about 20 minutes after taking off from Halim Perdana airport, while carrying passengers including reporters and potential customers. The flight, the second of the day, was part of a tour to promote the first major new Russian plane in more than two decades.
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Would it be wrong of me to have no feeling about this than.....Sorry you're Russian? Growing up in the late Cold War era, I still have no love loss for 'em. Hard hearted...maybe, but meh!
ReplyDelete:)! A real embarrassment for them.
ReplyDeleteJust typical communist engineering.
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I tell you, I flew commercially on some of theirs in Vietnam in the early nineties and I was not impressed at all. Which reminds me.
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