"Someone very high up in Russia, which still has massive influence over aviation in many parts of the world beyond its own borders, needs to say enough is enough"
Absolutely 100%.
However our "lame duck" "yes man" Mededev blamed the planes, especially after the TU and Jak killer accidents of last year.
W
can you do when the actions are laughable from a string puppet, who then becomes "prime minister".
Massive influence?
So long as an ex-KGB man is at the top of a corrupt vertical power structure, which he personally built,-
There is NOT ONE HOPE of a change in "culture".
Innocent PAX will continue to die in plane accidents at the average rate of a total hull loss every 2-3 months, whether the A/C is 30 yrs old or brand new, whether it's warm summer sun or -30C.
That should make everyone shudder, but it's a statistical fact of life.
Often the pilots are absolute heroes in comparison, landing a failed TU154 on a disused military airbase 400m too short in midwinter, or out of control after some engineer wires the controls wrong, or improvising by landing an AN on a frozen lake.
All you can say is W the ...
Russia and Ukraine purvey an almost total lack of any concept of a safety culture.
Whether it's boats that capsize drowning scores of innocent kids, night clubs that people light fireworks inside with inflammable ceilings, driving in totally clapped out trucks or cars over clapped out roads, keeping trains running with absent shock absorbers, distorted rails, running turbine generators overspeed with clapped out and hairline cracked turbines, or flying with snow on wings...
(There you go that's accounted already for about 600 dead people)
You want any more examples from 2010-11?
Did the "snow on wings" thread not say it loud and clear enough, after the Tiumen ATR tragedy?
Absolutely no-one, least of all AFL takes a blind bit of notice & frankly doesn't give a flying
.