Mon Jan 3, 2011
Russian officials have urged the country's airlines to ground all Tu-154B passenger jets after an engine fire incident at a Siberian airport killed three people.
Russia's Federal Transport Overseeing Service suggested the suspension until the investigations into the cause of the fatal explosion on board of the aircraft of the same type are concluded, RIA Novosti reported on Sunday.
The agency announced in a statement that it "has prepared an instruction, which recommends air companies suspend flight operations carried out by Tu-154B aircraft, until the causes of the plane accident in the Airport of Surgut are not established and measures to abate the risks coming from using this kind of aircraft are not taken."
On Saturday, Tupolev Tu-154 airliner, which was carrying 116 people, burst into flames after one of its engines caught fire and then exploded before taking off at Surgut airport in western Siberia.
According to Russian officials, the fire broke out in one of the plane's three engines and ignited the fuel tanks.
The incident left at least three people dead and some 43 others injured.
Meanwhile, Russian aviation investigators said on Sunday that they have found data and voice recorders from the Tu-154 at the accident site.
The Tu-154 is described as having an average safety record considering its length of service and heavy use.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/158380.html.
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