The Federal Air Transport Agency asked all SSJ-100 operators to check the planes

Russian aviations asked all Sukhoi Superjet 100 operators to check aircraft. In this regard, the Mexican airline Interjet canceled about 25 flights, according to the carrier's page.

"The safety of our passengers and aircraft is our priority task. We inform you that the Federal Air Transport Agency has released the directive of flight fit of the AD 2016-322-02 number, which asks all operators to inspect Superjet 100 aircraft," the report said. It is emphasized that the abolition of flights is not related to the Tu-154 disaster near Sochi .

Interjet is the first foreign operator SSJ -100. In her park 22 Russian liners of this model. In total, according to a contract concluded with the company, 30 aircraft is supposed to be delivered.

Interjet does not specify what causes the need to verify. Meanwhile, last week, the interfax source reported that the Federal Air Transport Agency demanded that the SSJ-100 stabilizers are checking in Russia due to the defect identified by Iraero airline. It was about the defect of the "eye of the upper and lower belts of the installation nodes of the stabilizer".

The “Sukhoi civilian aircraft” confirmed the identification of the defect of one of the parts of the SSJ tail, but they assured that it did not lead to “unsafe situations in operation”. “JSC“ GSS ”organized work on inspection of the SSJ-100 Park, which is in operation, a technical solution has been issued to maintain the flight fitness of the SSJ-100 aircraft. If defects are detected by the inspection results, they will be promptly eliminated,” said the representative of the GSS.

Later, the agency’s source said that according to the results of the audit, the Federal Air Transport Agency suspended the operation of several SSJ-100, including Aeroflot. “From the point of view of regular operation, the identified defect is not critical in its properties,” he said. “The defect was detected during the regular technical inspection according to the instructions. Nevertheless, the Federal Air Transport Agency decided not to operate even those aircraft where there is a suspicion of the defect.”

On Tuesday, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov told reporters that the technical problem of Sukhoi Superjet 100 "will be resolved in the near future."

Sukhoi Superjet -100 is the first civil aviation project, fully created in Russia, and not in the Soviet Union. This is a close -scale passenger aircraft, the development of which cost Russia $ 7 billion. The serial Sukhoi Superjet-100 served in 2010 .