Russian jet crashes on highway, kills at least 44

[HPLovecraft]

Yikes, what a scary incident this is. A Tupolev-134 crashed (crash landed? Not sure) onto a highway near Petrozavodsk, killing a current count of 44 people.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/20...ay-killing-38/



This is an image of a Tupolev-134 for reference.

[Bigtime]

Link to the thread on this at airliners.net:

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo....main/5177496/

[pylon]

Correct me if I am wrong, aren't these Tu-134's falling out of the sky at an inordinate rate?

[FlameOn]

TU-134's are ancient... probably a combination of stress induced age issue and poor maintenance caused the accident? But apparently on par accident rate with the 727 from what I hear.

[Rob Brown]

Russia... not surprising.

[billybob123]

Yikes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev..._and_incidents

Looks like most crashes are pilot error. 4 terrorism/conflict, 11/22 pilot error, the rest technical.

If you think Tu-134's record is bad, don't look at the Tu-154's record. Yikes indeed.

I have always wanted to fly on one of these... errrr maybe not?