According to Airline Reporter: Contrary to popular belief, the Tu-154 was not an unsafe aircraft. According to the the Aviation Safety Network, the Soviet built aircraft has been involved in 110 serious incidents, 68 of which resulted in a hull loss, 30 of which saw no deaths.

The last Tu-154 passenger jet still in service in Russia has completed its final scheduled commercial flight. On October 28, the Alrosa airline announced that the aircraft had flown from the Yakutia region city of Mirny to Siberia’s Novosibirsk with 140 passengers on board.

Tupolev Tu 154 – 7 Fatal Crashes With a cruise speed of 850 km/h, it is one of the fastest passenger liners, yet, also one of the loudest which has led to it being banned from flying through certain airspaces. In the last decade, there have been 7 crashes with fatalities involving the Tu-154.

Tupolev has designed over 100 models of civilian and military aircraft and produced more than 18,000 aircraft for Russia, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc since its founding, and celebrated its 90th anniversary on 22 October 2012….Tupolev.

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The main reason for the glass nose was locating runways and/or drop zones (paratroopers and airdrops). You have to remember that russia has some pretty crappy weather, and during the winter some places are whiteout conditions pretty non-stop.

Яковлева) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak)….Yakovlev.

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World’s Longest Flights Kennedy International Airport in New York is the longest regular non-stop passenger flight worldwide, both in terms of distance and travel time. The flight is a mammoth 15,347 kilometers, currently lasts for 18 hours and 40 minutes when traveling to Singapore and is operated with an Airbus A350.

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Tupolev Tu-95/Top speed

Pyeonghwa has the exclusive rights to production, purchase, and sale of used cars in North Korea. Most North Koreans are unable to own cars [because of price, legal prohibitions, or what?]. Because the market for cars in the country is so small, Pyeonghwa’s output is reportedly very low.

The Tupolev Tu-154 (Russian: Tyполев Ту-154; NATO reporting name: Careless) is a three-engine medium-range narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev.

Since 1968 there have been 39 fatal incidents involving the Tu-154, most of which were caused either by factors unrelated to the aircraft, incorrect maintenance, or by its extensive use in demanding conditions.

The Russians also converted a Tu-154M to serve as an Open Skies monitoring aircraft. They used the Tu-154M-LK-1, and converted it to a Tu-154M-ON. When not flying over North America, it is used to ferry cosmonauts. China is believed to have converted one Tu-154 to an electronic countermeasures aircraft.

Upon recognition from the West, NATO observers christened the aircraft the “Careless”. Unlike Western airliner types, the Tu-154 was specifically designed for very rigorous conditions and for navigating the broad and unforgiving airspaces common to the then-Soviet frontier.