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NPO "Saturn" in 2014 may increase the production of SaM146 engines for aircraft "Sukhoi Superjet-100" to 90 units

MOSCOW, July 8. (ARMS-TASS). The following year, NPO "Saturn" is able to produce 90 SaM146 engines for aircraft "Sukhoi Superjet-100". This was announced today at a press conference, managing director Ilya Fedorov, ITAR-TASS reported.
"Right now capacity - 4 engine in a month, 2 months 6 engines will be the end of the year - 8 engines a month," - he said, adding that the production of engines depends on the number of aircraft that are in stock.
"In the start of this year are 60 engines. Next year, we will be able to do 90 cars," - said the plans "Saturn" Fedorov, noting that there are plans to reach an annual production of 150 engines.

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A Sukhoi Superjet 100 has crash-landed at Keflavik International Airport in Iceland, a source with Isavia airlines has told reporters.

The airliner crashed while landing on Sunday morning. There were no casualties. No other details have been revealed so far.

According to Iceland media, the plane was carrying out a gear-up landing. It damaged one of the engines on landing and came to rest in the grass past the end of the runway.

sepheronx wrote:Glad to hear people are fine.  I couldn't care less about this piece of junk known as the SSJ-100.  The aircraft is supposed to be pinnacle of technology by pretty much importing everything.  Thing is, this jet is no better than what the Tu-204SM is, and the Tu-204SM uses far more domestic technology.  If sukhoi wanted to do something for civil aircraft market, they should have just developed Tu-204SM into their own variant and rename it to something else, so they could get more spare parts as well as work with domestic industries rather than foreign.

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Austin wrote:SSJ-100 makes crash landing in Iceland

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A Sukhoi Superjet 100 has crash-landed at Keflavik International Airport in Iceland, a source with Isavia airlines has told reporters.

The airliner crashed while landing on Sunday morning. There were no casualties. No other details have been revealed so far.

According to Iceland media, the plane was carrying out a gear-up landing. It damaged one of the engines on landing and came to rest in the grass past the end of the runway.

Glad to hear people are fine.  I couldn't care less about this piece of junk known as the SSJ-100.  The aircraft is supposed to be pinnacle of technology by pretty much importing everything.  Thing is, this jet is no better than what the Tu-204SM is, and the Tu-204SM uses far more domestic technology.  If sukhoi wanted to do something for civil aircraft market, they should have just developed Tu-204SM into their own variant and rename it to something else, so they could get more spare parts as well as work with domestic industries rather than foreign.

Sukhoi says a Superjet 100 involved in a wheels-up landing at Reykjavik Keflavik International Airport in Iceland on July 21 will be repaired and returned to the test program.

The Russian manufacturer says the fourth development aircraft, which joined the program in 2010, was in the final phases of autoland certification testing when the accident occurred on the airport’s runway 11. The aircraft, with five onboard, was conducting Cat IIIA autoland tests in crosswinds as well as simulated single-engine approaches.

Testing had been underway for more than 1 hr. 20 min. when the accident took place. After conducting most of the approaches to runway 20, the crew overflew runway 11 and made a wide turn over the sea before returning for a landing. Reports from Iceland indicate the landing gear was not down as it touched down with the aircraft coming to a stop in the grass beyond the end of the runway. Sukhoi reports that one of the two certification officials on board was injured during the subsequent evacuation. It adds that “at the time of the incident all aircraft systems were functioning normally.”