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Rescuers work near an overturned Russian-made Tupolev 134 passenger jet at the airfield outside Osh, Kyrgyzstan on Dec. 28. The packed TU-134 flipped over and caught fire on landing in the southern Kyrgyz city today injuring at least six people, officials and witnesses said.
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Rescuers work near an overturned Russian-made Tupolev 134 passenger jet at the airfield outside Osh on Dec. 28. The packed TU-134 flipped over and caught fire on landing in the southern Kyrgyz city today injuring at least six people, officials and witnesses said.
Amazing that all the passengers survived.
AP reports:
The Kyrgyz government says that 31 people have been injured in the crash-landing of a passenger jet.
Kyrgyzstan's Health Ministry said the Soviet-built Tu-134 jet was carrying 95 passengers and six crew when it crash-landed in deep fog Wednesday at the airport of the southern city of Osh.
Emergency Situations Minister Kubatbek Boronov said the plane flying from the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek was damaged when it made a rough landing in Osh. He didn't elaborate, but eyewitnesses said the jet rolled off the runway, broke its wing, overturned and caught fire.
Boronov said that 17 of the 31 injured were hospitalized.
The Tu-134 is a two-engine jet that has remained in service with many post-Soviet carriers.
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Good news that all survived. Did anyone notice the plane's colors are red, white and blue?
The cold War is over comrade. It's safe for you to get your head out of your fallout bunker!
No, they are blue, white, red. Frenchies!
Red white and blue are the most common flag colours. France, Russia, Serbia, Croatia, the Netherlands, Chile, Cuba, Liberia, Paraguay, etc all use those colours.
So no surprise there, and nothing to notice.
People any landing that you can walk away from is a good landing
Just ask any of the survivors!
Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Any landing after which you can use the plane for another flight is a GREAT landing.
do they charge for luggage ?
In Soviet Russia, plane drops you
That was bad, but I'm glad everyone survived even if they did get a little crispy 'round the edges.
Who would want to ride in a Chinese-built aircraft? Would you buy it at Wal-Mart?
It was Bush's fault.
I think in this case the landing gear was installed upside down at the factory and the plane was coming in for a normal landing when the low lift to weight ratio caused the plane to crash because the wings were actually pointing up and not down, no doubt built that way as a patriotic salute to the communist party.
Perhaps they were actually headed for Australia and the world was configured the wrong way!
Guess landing upside down isn't good in Russia either.
Nyet!!
Pilot was obviously Australian. Duh.
Ruken: To answer your question as to why everything wrong seems to be, Russian. Have you ever traveled to Russia or the Ukraine? I have, and I can tell you that, they are at least 50-70 years behind us here in the U.S.A. and other developed countries in every walk-of-life. They still use much equipment from WW-ll and the Cold-War with no oversight or quality control.
Hey mossfleet, the us military had the same question 20 years ago, until they realized that vacuum tube based electrical systems did not care about EMP! The older MIG's could fly through a nuke blast. The planes electrical s would keep on working. The pilot, not so much.
Sure there is some old gear but a lot of high technology also. The only two self sufficient countries in the world after WWII were the US and USSR which had the needed resources to build everything they needed, with their own support industries in chemicals, biological, electronics, aircraft, food production, consumer products, computers, automobile and heavy equipment, space programs etc. How can you saw they had such lower outdated technology....who still has the only heavy lift access to space that NASA and dozens of other countries us, or the highest rated computer science programs in universities? Check out the winners of IBM sponsored Programming Olympics where Russian universities have done far better than any and all US universities which entered teams.
You might have been a visitor but as an engineer, an American and living full time in Russia for years, I think you are sadly misinformed.
I'll second that Am-expat. I am presently working a project (via e-mails and data transfer sites) with three engineers in Kyiv. I can tell you all three know what they're doing, and do it well!
must have been built by nascar
The Pilot was playing words with friends with Alec Baldwin just before touching down...
The Russian version of "miracle on the Hudson".
Again, a bunch of commenters on here for no regard for a persons life.
That's what happens when you don't strip search and pat everyone down before boarding.
When these folks say to keep your seatbelts fastened until the plane comes to a complete stop, they really mean it.
Any landing you walk away from is a good landing!
Your 'name your own price' insurance, may not cover this one!
Wow!! I read everyone of the comments up to this point and NO ONE blamed it on Obama, then again, NO ONE blamed Bush either ..... I must be on the wrong blog
Look at Aaron-321353's post at 1:16. Pres. Obama is too busy spending another 1.2 trillion dollars - 40% of which we will borrow from the Chinese. Who still wants Hope and Change?
Reading a cross section of these comments makes you shiver. Wow, gene pool gone wrong all the way!
This is our future???? Ah-@!$%#!
Not really. This same BS between folks has been blasting around for centuries. Now it's just electronically distributed and recorded.
I'm sure there's a way to blame the President for this.
A guardian angel. Yep.
out of date plane and icy runway .. this is a lucky story . with the plane belly facing skyward ,all passenger survive the crash it is amazing story of the crash
Another TU-134 hist the dust! Pleased to see without loss of life this time.
Looks like I picked the wrong time to quit drinking.
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