Russian plane crashes into road outside Moscow (VIDEO)

[Grig]

Not surprised by that fact. Mostly due to the safety regulations and the aircraft they have built during the many years. Although they are improving to match up with the standards you would find in aircraft built in the western countries.

Things are improving, the country's main company Aeroflot had a massive re-brand, took all its old Russian built aircraft out of service and ordered tons of news Airbuses and Boeings. Now the average age of their fleet is 4 years.

But many smaller local companies fly with old, uneconomical and unsafe Soviet-era planes.

[xxMATTGxx]

I won't take this 100% until it has been fully confirmed it was the case for the overrun/crash.

But Sky News just tweeted out:

Reuters: Faulty brakes may be to blame in Russian plane crash according to member of investigating team

[The Don]

Yeh, I don't get why the company does that though. Waste of money running an empty plane back to their base. But this is very true, it could have been far worse.

The planes have to make it back for connecting flights. Even if there's no passengers, chances are the next flight will have passengers so the plane needs to be at that airport to pick them up.

[Rachel]

It's terrible

[Grig]

The planes have to make it back for connecting flights. Even if there's no passengers, chances are the next flight will have passengers so the plane needs to be at that airport to pick them up.

That's clear, I was echoing that it's an uneconomic practice in most cases.

[xxMATTGxx]

That's clear, I was echoing that it's an uneconomic practice in most cases.

Cargo airlines are probably the worst for it. They often put a plane in the sky empty just encase one of the other planes that would depart with cargo goes tech. Although there is good reasons why they do it but I can see why people would be mad about it in regards of money/fuel/environment and whatever else.

[Shockwave.2CC]

I'll say what i said on Facebook

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