Some airliners Tu-134, An-24, Yak-40 may be banned from flights
According to Itar-Tass, on Thursday, Transport Minister Igor Levitin held a meeting devoted to the presidential instructions over the withdrawal from operation of the airliners Tu-134.
The Russian air companies are still operating 179 such airliners, "only 90 aircraft of which are operational."
"Starting from January 1, 2012, the airliners equipped with the gas turbine engines and with the weight exceeding 5,700 kilograms or permitted to carry more than nine people (this is the airliners Tu-134, An-24, Yak-40 and others), but not equipped with the ground proximity warning system that is monitoring the terrain during the flight, will be banned from flights," the source said.
In this respect, Igor Levitin instructed the Russian Aircraft Agency to order the air companies to stop the air ticket sale on the flights, which are made by the airliners not equipped with this system.
On Thursday, President Dmitry Medvedev instructed to study the halt of regular flights for the Tu-134 airliners not equipped with the foresaid system starting from next year.
The Tu-134 airliner crashed in the slide down for landing near Petrozavodsk overnight to Tuesday. The air crash killed 45 people and seven people were hospitalized.
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