Americans warned: civilian airliners will fall in Russia
A number of tragedies caused by air crashes in the Russian Federation over the past few years have not ignored the Western media. American journalist Alec Lun analyzes the causes of terrible air crashes in our country in The Atlantic magazine.
The crash of the Yak-42 near Yaroslavl in 2011 and the ATR 72 near Tyumen in 2012, the fall of the Tu-154 Ministry of Defense in the Black Sea in 2016, the recent death of 71 Russians in the An-148 in the Moscow region were caused, according to the journalist, by the pilots.
The Interstate Aviation Committee reported that the crash of the An-148 Saratov Airlines, flying from Moscow to Orsk, could be caused by icing of the sensors of the full pressure receivers, which measure the speed of the aircraft. At the same time, the heating of the receivers was turned off, obviously, by the pilots themselves.
Earlier, Hero of Russia, Honored Test Pilot Magomed Tolboev, said that due to the low level of training of civil aviation pilots in our country, many pilots do not even know the purpose of all the buttons on the dashboard of the aircraft they control. Magomed Tolboev laid the blame for the situation on the Federal Air Transport Agency and its leadership.
Another reason for the catastrophes in civil aviation in Russia was the increase in air traffic, said Alex Lun. Between 2009 and 2015, the number of air passengers doubled, reaching 90 million. The growth of air traffic in 2017 amounted to 19%. Exacerbated the situation policy the leadership of the carrier companies, which forced the pilots to process more than normal, squeezing the last juices out of people. So, the cause of the disaster near Tyumen in 2012 was the banal greed of the airline, which forced the pilots to violate the work regime by working without the required vacation days.
The depreciation of the ruble made it profitable for pilots to switch to work in Asia, thereby creating a shortage of qualified personnel. In fact, under the sweatshop system of work in Russia, either the most patriotic or the most untrained pilots remained.
Obviously, if in the very near future the situation with attracting qualified, experienced pilots to civil aviation is not successfully resolved, we can expect a recurrence of air crashes with many casualties.
The crash of the Yak-42 near Yaroslavl in 2011 and the ATR 72 near Tyumen in 2012, the fall of the Tu-154 Ministry of Defense in the Black Sea in 2016, the recent death of 71 Russians in the An-148 in the Moscow region were caused, according to the journalist, by the pilots.
The Interstate Aviation Committee reported that the crash of the An-148 Saratov Airlines, flying from Moscow to Orsk, could be caused by icing of the sensors of the full pressure receivers, which measure the speed of the aircraft. At the same time, the heating of the receivers was turned off, obviously, by the pilots themselves.
Earlier, Hero of Russia, Honored Test Pilot Magomed Tolboev, said that due to the low level of training of civil aviation pilots in our country, many pilots do not even know the purpose of all the buttons on the dashboard of the aircraft they control. Magomed Tolboev laid the blame for the situation on the Federal Air Transport Agency and its leadership.
Another reason for the catastrophes in civil aviation in Russia was the increase in air traffic, said Alex Lun. Between 2009 and 2015, the number of air passengers doubled, reaching 90 million. The growth of air traffic in 2017 amounted to 19%. Exacerbated the situation policy the leadership of the carrier companies, which forced the pilots to process more than normal, squeezing the last juices out of people. So, the cause of the disaster near Tyumen in 2012 was the banal greed of the airline, which forced the pilots to violate the work regime by working without the required vacation days.
The depreciation of the ruble made it profitable for pilots to switch to work in Asia, thereby creating a shortage of qualified personnel. In fact, under the sweatshop system of work in Russia, either the most patriotic or the most untrained pilots remained.
Obviously, if in the very near future the situation with attracting qualified, experienced pilots to civil aviation is not successfully resolved, we can expect a recurrence of air crashes with many casualties.
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