G. GUDKOV: FLIGHT SAFETY SYSTEM IN RF DOES NOT MEET INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
Moscow, August 23. ArmInfo. The flight safety system in the Russian
Federation does not meet international standards, said Gennady Gudkov,
a member of the State Duma Commission for Security, commenting on the
Tuesday crash of Tu-154, Rosbalt correspondent reports. "It is not a
separate tragedy, it is already a system crisis the Russian aviation
suffers today. We have recently had three large scale air crashes in
Sochi, Irkutsk and Donetsk, which killed over 400 people. Although
the airbus that crashed near Sochi belonged to Armenian airlines, it
was the same Russian catastrophe given the close relations of Russia
and Armenia and common principles of flights," Gudkov said. European
states and the USA make several times more flights than Russia,
however, there are almost no such large-scale tragedies there. One
can only guess what could happen to a trig plane with a professional
crew at the 11,000 meters height.
"If the reason of the tragedy was the storm, so the crew was not
prepared enough or there were problems with the navigation services.
Why there was no connection with the crew? Even laymen have
many questions which are still without answers," he said. If the
responsibility for the last tragedy is also laid on human factor,
it would mean that those who are to provide flight safety to the
Russian people just avoid responsibility, Gudkov said.