"Don't fly any other airline in Russia except for Aeroflot, Transaero and S7 and you will be fine."
That sounds like a good recommendation when it was Aeroflot was 100% responsible for the poor training and CRM of the Aeroflot flight SU821 accident in Perm, then the infamous video from last winter when they refused to sanction the pilot last winter for taking off with snow on the wings...then,-
S7 Flight 778 screw-up at Irkutsk....and of course Transaero's infamous record of flying on time.
Just do you have any idea what you are talking about or what you are up against with ref to Russian aviation?
They're all in the snake pit together, and this crash is just the tip of a very large iceberg.
Trying suing AFL or S7 for any sort of poor behaviour...
(Eg. being 8hrs late ???!!)
We have tried, on 2 occasions.
AFL just LIED & LIED in court time after time, deny everything, hire crap lawyers and outgun every single "normal" legal procedure by every means "in the book" or "out of the book".
In Russia if anything goes pear shaped, the old soviet style education clicks in:-
1/ Deny everything.
2/ Exonerate the company/state
3/ Blame the customer/equipment/crew
It was exactly the same on the
Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam accident.
It will always be the same in a country replete with an overt culture of lying, false law degrees, innate corruption & accountancy abberations.
S7 went into denial on our 2nd court case.
Everyone asked us "why do you bother to waste your time & money"?
You want to view the correspondence?
It's an eye opener!
