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Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard

Posted by timothy on from the perils-of-innovation dept.

First time accepted submitter Prokur writes "A brand new Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliner on a demonstration flight with 37 passengers (mostly future clients and journalists) and 8 Russian crew members on board went missing after it took off from an airport in Jakarta. After an extensive search, rescuers concluded, based on the widespread debris field on the side of a ridge, that the aircraft directly impacted the rocky side of Mount Salak and there was 'no chance of survival.'"

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  1. A symptom of top-to-bottom rot by benjfowler · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The entire country is corrupt, decrepit and dysfunctional, not just Putin's much vaunted "national champions".

    The corrupt little dictator knows that the country he presides over is falling over. Which is why he's so busy turkey-slapping anybody who looks like they could ever be a friend of Russia.

    With another twelve years of this thug, Russia is fucked.