Looks like Putin's Il-96 has well and truly bitten the dust
Some information in R&N at the
time.
Ironically, Moscow Times is reporting that yesterday the Federal Transportation Inspection Service signed off the IL-96 to resumne flying. Fair amount of argument about the situation, with the some IL-96 pilots and at least one of the airlines saying the grounding was unnecessary.
As an aside, the latest Moscow Times article describes the Il-96 as:
The poor man's version of the Boeing 767 ... the last big achievement of Soviet civil aviation.
And I thought the British press were good at putting the boot in any indigenous product!