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Old 19th Aug 2021, 11:46
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Ilyushin seem to have had no luck with their two twin turboprop types, the IL-112 (as here, high wing, high tail) and IL-114 (low wing, low tail), both designed around 1990; not apparent how much commonality they have but it must be some given they came from the same design team at the same time. The IL-114 was intended for the civil market, production was abandoned around 2010 with just half a dozen built. Certainly two of them were sat on a remote ramp at St Petersburg airport throughout 2003-08 without propellers. The IL-112 seems to have been on the drawing board for about 25 years before the first prototype (the accident aircraft here) was even completed. In the onetime Soviet style of separation of design and production, Ilyushin mostly used a plant in Tashkent, which became independent Uzbekistan, and although the aircraft were initially intended to be produced there the extended development period saw this pulled back to a plant in Russia.

I see the commander of the accident flight was the longstanding chief test pilot of Ilyushin, and would presume comments from others about not knowing about turning into a dead engine etc are somewhat misplaced.

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