Medvedev demanded to radically reduce the number of airlines

President Dmitry Medvedev demanded to radically reduce the number of airlines in Russia. According to RIA Novosti, at a meeting of the operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of the Yak-42 plane crash under Yaroslavl, he said that he would give an appropriate order to the government. "The situation in the field of civil aviation in Russia should be radically changed," the president said.

“The number of airlines should be radically reduced, and this must be done in the shortest possible time,” Medvedev demanded. According to him, "it is necessary, finally, to figure out how the air carriers work." “It has been repeatedly said that there are many of them, but I did not see decisions related to their merger and liquidation,” Medvedev emphasized.

He asked to report on how small companies are liquidated that do not fulfill the standards. Medvedev noted that he was not talking about the last aircraft industry in this case. “There is no reason to take stock here yet, I am talking about the situation as a whole,” he added.

Medvedev also promised to personally control the investigation of the crash of the Yak-42 aircraft near Yaroslavl. "The results of the investigation should be reported to me personally and I will be controlled by me," Medvedev said. The president also demanded that the investigation of the crash is open.

The Yak-42 aircraft, on board which were hockey players of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, fell in the area of ​​the village of Tunoshna near Yaroslavl, 2.5 kilometers northwest of the airport. Currently, rescuers have discovered the bodies of all 43 dead on the eve of the Yak-42 disaster near Yaroslavl. The forensic experts identified 16 people. In total, 45 people were aboard, most of them were hockey players of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv. They flew to Minsk for the game of the first round of the regular hockey league championship. The condition of two hockey player Alexander Galimov and the flight attendant Alexander Sizov - remains extremely difficult.

The UK reported that during the investigation of the disaster, all possible versions will be studied, but the investigation will rely on the conclusions of the technical commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee. Mack employees began to examine the wreckage of the aircraft, soon they will have to study the testimony of a parametric self-script that recorded the parameters of a short flight of the Yak-42 and the action of the crew. Only after that will there be preliminary conclusions about the causes of the disaster, emphasized in the UK.

According to pilots interviewed by Kommersant, the cause of the crash could be a problem with power plants, "spontaneously" arising during the acceleration of the aircraft. The problem most likely caught the crew by surprise when the speed exceeded 200 kilometers per hour. In this case, the plane, even starting emergency braking, could no longer stop within the strip. The Yak-42 flight manual says that the front chassis is separated at a speed of 215 kilometers per hour.

It takes 420 kilometers per hour to set a height - this speed, according to the pilots, the faulty engines of the aircraft no longer pulled out, which led to dumping on the left wing. The pilots also attributed a sharp increase in the temperature in the engines, and the drop in oil or fuel pressure collapsing possible problems during the take-off of the Yak-42. They did not exclude the entry of birds into the air intakes. In addition, the sources of the publication noted, a crew error is possible, which for some reason slipped a safe separation point and decided to compensate for this by increasing the traction of the engines and a more steep rise.

The Federal Air Transport Agency said that before the departure, the liner was working, "all the engines worked, the resource was not exhausted by the plane." The Yak-42 of 1993 release with the on-board number 42434 was leased by the Yak-Service Airlines at the Khrunichev Space Center, flew 6203 hours, made 2997 landings, the flight performance certificate expired with him on October 1, 2011.