Armavia not going to suspend flights of Sukhoi Superjet -100
10.05.2012,
21:29
Armenia’s national airline ArmAvia said today it is not going to suspend flying its post-Soviet jet airliner Sukhoi SuperJet 100 after another Sukhoi Superjet-100 crashed in Indonesia. The ill-fated aircraft took off from an airport in Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon and radar lost it 21 minutes later.
YEREVAN, May 10. /ARKA/. Armenia’s national airline ArmAvia said today it is not going to suspend flying its post-Soviet jet airliner Sukhoi SuperJet 100 after another Sukhoi Superjet-100 crashed in Indonesia. The ill-fated aircraft took off from an airport in Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon and radar lost it 21 minutes later.
It was carrying dozens of representatives from local airlines and journalists on what was supposed to be a quick, 50-minute demonstration flight Wednesday. Indonesian authorities said the passengers and crew on board a Russian plane had no chance of survival when the aircraft slammed into the side of a mountain.
In a press release today ArmAvia said ‘there is no need to dramatize things.’ ‘ArmAvia has no complaints about the aircraft, however, it has some shortcomings, as every aircraft does.’
The first Sukhoi Superjet 100 was delivered for Armavia on April 19, 2011. The cost of the aircraft is $24 million. The short-haul passenger aircraft is designed to transport up to 98 passengers at a distance of 4,400 km.
Duirng a visit to Armenia this past April the chief executive officer of Sukhoi Civil Aircrafts Company, Mikhail Poghosian said Armavia’s Sukhoi Superjet-100 spent in the air 2000 hours, which he said was a very good result. He said Armavia was set to obtain a second Sukhoi Superjet 100.
Armavia was founded in 1996. In 2005 all its shares were acquired by businessman Mikhail Baghdasarov. The company operates more than 100 flights a week to over 40 destinations in 20 countries. It owns and runs Airbus, CRJ, Boeing, as well as Sukhoi Superjet aircrafts. -0-
