'Sukhoi was a replacement'
17 May 2012 4:11 AM GMT
Investigators on Wednesday were analysing the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano.
They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused last week's crash, which killed all 45 people on board.
The 'black box,' found on Tuesday at the bottom of a 500-meter (1,640-foot) ravine, was shattered and badly burned, said Tatang Kurniadi, who heads the National Commission on Safety Transportation, adding that the memory module appears to still be readable.
One media report said it didn't take to the sky because of a technical glitch, but that could not be confirmed.
Then on the way to Myanmar, it was discovered that a 'nozzle in the engine' was leaking, Alexander Tulyakov, vice president of United Aircraft Corporation, the main stockholder of Sukhoi, told the LifeNews.ru news website. It got permission from the engine maker to return to Moscow.
Meanwhile it has been reported that the Sukhoi Superjet 100 was a replacement aircraft for one that had been withdrawn due to engine problems shortly before the flight.
A Superjet 100 aircraft with the tail number 95005, which earlier performed demonstration flights in Kazakhstan and Pakistan as part of a six-country tour aimed at wooing potential buyers, was the one originally planned to be shown in Indonesia, the LifeNews TV channel quoted Alexander Tulyakov, deputy president of Russia's United Aviation Corporation (UAC) as saying. But an engine oil leak revealed during maintenance forced the organisers to replace the plane with another similar jet, with the tail number 95004, Tulyakov said.
They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused last week's crash, which killed all 45 people on board.
The 'black box,' found on Tuesday at the bottom of a 500-meter (1,640-foot) ravine, was shattered and badly burned, said Tatang Kurniadi, who heads the National Commission on Safety Transportation, adding that the memory module appears to still be readable.
One media report said it didn't take to the sky because of a technical glitch, but that could not be confirmed.
Then on the way to Myanmar, it was discovered that a 'nozzle in the engine' was leaking, Alexander Tulyakov, vice president of United Aircraft Corporation, the main stockholder of Sukhoi, told the LifeNews.ru news website. It got permission from the engine maker to return to Moscow.
Meanwhile it has been reported that the Sukhoi Superjet 100 was a replacement aircraft for one that had been withdrawn due to engine problems shortly before the flight.
A Superjet 100 aircraft with the tail number 95005, which earlier performed demonstration flights in Kazakhstan and Pakistan as part of a six-country tour aimed at wooing potential buyers, was the one originally planned to be shown in Indonesia, the LifeNews TV channel quoted Alexander Tulyakov, deputy president of Russia's United Aviation Corporation (UAC) as saying. But an engine oil leak revealed during maintenance forced the organisers to replace the plane with another similar jet, with the tail number 95004, Tulyakov said.
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