The story says that everyone survived. That is good.

Well, remarkably no one was killed in a plane that flipped over and caught fire...now, this is indeed remarkable and good news for the passengers and crew. As to Russia being the only place for bad news????You must not get around much.

Guess the crew deserves to die along with the child molesters. Where did you pick up the 'child molesters' information?

mygirl1,

He just made up that BS. He IS your proverbial troll! Did you notice his moniker is stoopid! Fits him very well, right?

where have you been.........you forget to read about all the murders in the good ole USA?

Elder Ed - I don't judge the safety of our nuclear industry based on their (Russian) disasters. 40+ years in the industry and knowledge of the joke that is INPO, the travesty that is the NRC and the (in many, but not all cases) the incompetence of senior management does that for me.

Elder Ed- with all due respect sir, wasn't Yugo built by the Yugoslavians? Hence the name Yugo? And please do correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Yugoslavia an Eastern European nation? Just saying :)....

But a great ending for these folks...I wish there were more of these good endings to the problems of today's world...and I wish we could live in peace and harmony for once...

Once flew on a flight in Indonesia. While taking off, black fluid was flowing from somewhere above the overhead bins. The flight attendants were ready for it and gave people rags to hold up to catch it. You would walk down the isle and there would be duct tape holding things together. Now that was a scary flight.

That's why planes built from asbestos are so much safer.

Try my two kids and mother in law on a flight, now thats a nightmare.

(shutters)

Ruken, are you even living on the same planet as us? You would have us believe everything bad that happens in the world can be traced back to Russia? Do you really believe that, or are you just starting us off with a troll? Cause if you do, that's a very biased opinion probably left over from the cold war.

Despite what the original post would suggest, there are a lot of very good products that come out of Russia. I have a russian made fuzz box plugged into my guitar board for instance, that is superior to any produced in the USA.

Consider this: if that plane had been cheaper, then perhaps no one would have walked away from it. It's like this; if you get in a horrendous wreck in an old Chrysler, and walk away from it, you don't blame the Chrysler for the accident, that's what saved your life!

Yearight, I think Ruken's comment is a non-starter. Maybe he expects, "and in other news, the Russian winter wheat crop is up 4% over last year..." but that's not worth reporting. Bad stuff usually makes for interesting news; good stuff is usually not very interesting. Everybody knows that.

Rick Perry flipped and caught fire and nobody said a word.

cheetah--ha ha pretty funny. I thought recent news reports said that you were deceased? Say hello to tarzan for me.

WRONG

That's because all the lead in the paint makes them too heavy to fly.

OH? The Chinese bought the entire data set for building MD-80s from Boeing and are in production now. They will initially fly only asian routes, but that won't last long once they establish a record.

They also produce major components for Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Check your facts, eh?

Yes, the Chinese do have experience assembling jetliners. 35 MD-80 airplanes were assembled and are operating in the People's Republic of China. In 1986, McDonnell Douglas began sending "kits" overseas to be assembled using duplicate tooling and local labor, in hopes of opening a permanent factory in Shanghai to gain a foothold in a potentially huge Asian market. Teams of experienced UAW mechanics, from the Long Beach, California plant were sent to to China to teach eager, but ignorant Chinese laborers to assemble one of the best aircraft designs of its time - while the UAW turned a blind eye to the whole operation.

Pretty remarkable for a plane hull to withstand this kind of a crash... Russians can build good planes... these folks were very lucky!

You are right, the TU-134 is loved by older pilots(most have been taken out of service due to exceed their design life or sold to 3rd world regional carriers) because it was tough and one of the few smaller liners rated for under developed fields where it had to handle tough conditions in mountainous routes where steep approaches were needed. I have heard military and civil air pilots say that if they were going to crash, they would prefer to be in a TU-134 because of a higher survival rate.

I have flown in them many times in Russia and Ukraine but don't many of them any more. They ere not terribly comfortable with small seats and limited overhead space but they are strong and resilient. There was a lot of misinformation or lack of information about Soviet era aircraft production but Aeroflot was the world's largest airline for decades until it was broken up and privatized. Flying was cheap and common in the Soviet Union but is expensive now in Russia so train travel has increased a lot.

You all forgetting one thing, no lives lost and the plane Had to have been made sturdy or the roof would kave peeled like a banana, wierd all this nasty remarks esp. since Chirstmas just past. Let me ask all you this" no mater the color of the skin or were you came from does the blood still be RED when you are cut? Me thinks that makes ALL human and as such should treat each and all others as you would like them to treat you. NOW you honestly tell me that YOU would like anyone to trash yourself, call you names, call you dumb, stubid , a crimanl, and insult you and your family and your hertage? My hope is that no-one says yes to that. If all say no to this tan treat all people the same and say thanks that No life was lost and just maybe there were a few hero's out of this and everyone got to go home and nobody had to attend a funeral.

The Chinese build modern fighter jets in Chengdu city.

Well, mustang.1952, that is a nice blog. I hope you made an impression on a few people but don't be too upset if someone comes up with something 'not nice'. Somehow this blogging business brings out the worst in people.

Thank you Diana-2844801. Yes I expect that as people have to put on a face but it is only a painted face and whn water hits it it runs off. Then they are back to right were they started in the first place and maybe someday even those people will stop and think about what I said. I am never surprised about he way people comment weather on this or in person but I give anything to be a fly on the wall when the same is returned back to them,but that is another story.

oh boy, everyone got off alive, just not in one piece. you are not going to get me in one of those flying coffins where the lucky ones end up in the hospital and prior to takeoff, treated worse then a criminal with body checks. i like my freedom on the ground not having to trust some drunk pilot or air controller.

The Russians may not have built them pretty, but they did build them tough!

I wonder how many lawsuits there will be??

bob-Probably none,it's not in the US!

Wow.

So many incorrectly negative remarks coming from people still living their parent's Cold War mindset. An unfortunately ignorant mindset, based on a steady stream of misinformation that came by way of a Federal government controlled, Military-Industrial Complex funded media, that blatantly lies to you every single day.

I am glad all survived this plane crash. I think I will create and say aloud an extemporaneous prayer of Thanks, and follow up by playing the song "I.G.Y." by Donald Fagen on repeat for an hour or so.

Wait, the "because the chinese don't make planes yet" was actually pretty good.

It was reported that of all the sadness created by the injuries; the person using the lavatory when the plane flipped over, was most blue of all.

must have been the toilet bowl cleaner spilling on him/her....

You caught on to that all by youself, huh?

Planes fly, land, everyone goes home, sometimes they fly, crash-land and everyone goes home anyway (with free flying 4 life?), sometimes they fly, crash, and Nobody goes home :-( Falling Planes from the skies don't much care who made them.....

And they go home with one hell of a story for their grandchildren.

The very first flight of the Wright Brothers did not land smoothly, ever since then people have taken their lives in their hands when they decide to fly that far off the ground.Regardless of how safe or otherwise Flight may be it is still essential to the global economy that it exists.

Considering the current world situation I wish it were not so. Take me Home Country Roads..TY to J. Denver

It's roughly the equivalent of an early Douglas DC-9: ancient equipment, by Western standards. The Tu-134 has never been marketed outside the old Soviet Union, because it didn't meet our air safety standards.

I can't wait to see that video!

Hell yeah

Eat your heart out, Captain Sully.

Heard from the cockpit just moments before the crash, "Hold my vodka and watch this."

This was a routine landing for the Dos Equis guy, "The most interesting man in the world". Everyone survived because he did it on purpose just for the adventure.

Chuck Norris was also on the scene - the shock wave from his roundhouse kick extinguished the flames.

Jweilan, ROFL thou speaks the right! But you forgot "and blamed it on the air traffic controller for not instructing him to land it 'right side up, on the runway, flame free'".

Because we spend our money on wars.

I see you found your opening Sam Adams.....Jesus, get over yourself!

we do stupid...u just dont any better.......

well what is wrong with a good war. we need to thin out population don't we.

We DO have planes like that, what about the plane that landed in the Hudson river and everybody stepped off the wings into lifeboats and nobody was even hurt? Come on folks, a miracle is a miracle.

The plane on the Hudson didn't roll over and catch fire. So this one is a double miracle.

Plus there was one broken leg in the Hudson ditching.

Sorry The Angry Guy, I didn't know anybody broke their leg. And It WAS a double miracle by rolling over and catching fire and STILL everybody lived. You all have a nice day.

thats true.

Fly Navy, just don't fly in an Osprey

Ill fly navy and comercial stuff happens and planes crash still the safest way to travel!

Osprey is USMC if my memory is correct. The navy did do the test flights in 1997 at NAS in Maryland

Why in the hell did they run the story without a headline as to where the the plane crash was! My mother is flying today, and I would not have had just a reaction, if they had just said Russian Aircraft instead of just Plane Flips and Catches Fire! I am happy everyone survived, but I don't care much for the SENSATIONALISM they used in presenting the story!

John Daye/Caribbean Life/CNG

John, how is this sensationalism? There are about 100,000 commercial airline flights across the world every day. MSNBC can't keep track of which flight your mom was on.

Hot-in-Miami, sit next to me... I want YOU to be my flotation device...

Hubba Hubba !

There're????

Oh no! It's the spelling police!

Considering we burned up 40% of our STS system, I will withhold my response :P

"Baby, baby, baby, where did our love go?"

But on the flipside jewls, does that plane even have autopilot?

like the AK47?

Roman is correct! The russians build some of the best aircraft in the world! BTW,they have the largest airfleet in the world too! If you can find it watch a PBS special called top gun over moscow (I think?).Amazing, the SY22 can land without gear, be jacked up drop the gear and take off again!

Wrong, engineering! There is a difference, ask an engineer.

American plane = flimsy beer can

Russian plane = sturdy trash can

Disagree, Jonny?

That's why so many US built birds, commercial and military, are still flying all over the world well past their life expectancy, right?

C'mon daweb, American aircraft engineering is the best in the world. Ask any knowledgeable a/c mech what they think of Boeing vs. Airbus for durability and maintainability

that was a miniature scale plane dorp sh=t

Yes that was from the Israeli Air Force

Why?? At least you know you'll get there (even if upside down and on fire). The really interesting part is that it was on your list in the first place... :)

Alex was playing the pilot.