Well, I'm genuinely puzzled by the "distasteful" comments. The photos were standard news shots of the Superjet accidents in Moscow and Indonesia. They (or very similar ones) have been widely published in respectable newspapers, and have surely been posted dozens or even hundreds of times here on PPRuNe, in both serious and not-so-serious threads. My point was in fact to lampoon the shock-horror-air-terror Daily Mail-type media coverage, and show that the Sukhoi Superjet, far from being a dodgy Russian-built deathtrap, is in fact a modern, safe aircraft, largely indistinguishable from its Western peers.
Anyway, since they seem to have upset people, I have removed the photos and made my point in plain text instead. Now can we look at the actual content?