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A major step for Aeroflot occurred on 15 September 1956 when the Tupolev Tu-104 jet aircraft entered service on the Moscow-Omsk-Irkutsk route, marking the world's first sustained jet airline service. The airline began international flights with the type on 12 October 1956 under the command of Boris Bugayev with flights from Moscow to Prague ...
The Aeroflot Flight 112 air crash was an aviation disaster involving a passenger Lisunov Li-2 aircraft operated by Aeroflot, which occurred on 2 January 1965 near the village of Darvaza (which does not exist anymore), Turkmen SSR. The crash resulted in the deaths of 24 people, making it the largest aviation disaster in the history of Turkmenistan.
Aeroflot accidents and incidents. Founded in 1923, Aeroflot, the flag carrier and largest airline of Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), has had a high number of fatal crashes, with a total of 8,231 passengers dying in Aeroflot crashes according to the Aircraft Crashes Record Office, mostly during the Soviet era, about five times more than any ...
Russia's top airline Aeroflot is restoring Soviet-era routes hoping that direct flights which bypass traditional hubs help increase traffic amid closed borders, CEO Mikhail Poluboyarinov told Reuters.
[7]: 1389 [8] The former monopolistic Aeroflot – Soviet Airlines entered a new era following the dissolution of the USSR, when it shrank dramatically as it was split into several regional companies throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States in mid–1992.
0. Aeroflot Flight 5143 was a domestic scheduled Karshi – Ufa – Leningrad passenger flight that crashed near Uchkuduk, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union, on 10 July 1985. The crash killed all 200 occupants (148 adults, including 9 crewmembers, and 52 children) on board. Investigators determined that crew fatigue was a factor in the accident.
Today Qantas remains the de facto flag carrier of Australia as well as the country’s largest airline and one of its best known brands globally. 4. Aeroflot. Aeroflot was the largest airline in ...
In February 2010, the Russian government announced that all state-owned regional airlines managed by holding company Rostec would be consolidated into flag carrier Aeroflot to increase financial viability. [citation needed] On 16 November 2011, 75% minus 1 share of Rossiya Airlines JSC was transferred to Aeroflot.