Russia has had a bad safety record with airliners but there doesn't seem to be any web site tally. I thought I would list what crashes stick in my mind that had any connection to Russia and maybe others can add to it or correct me. Many are from the Air Disasters tv series.
I don't mean to demonize Russia; I have studied the language and visited there. They put us on an Aeroflot plane with a glass bombardier nose dome, and well there often seems to be some dark humor absurdist aspect to how aviation things unfold there.
Most recent Air Disasters covered a crash with their most elite pilots and equipment flying from Moscow to Hong Kong. Pilot put his young children in the cockpit and while distracted with the daughter, didn't notice his son in pilot seat yanking the controls until the autopilot partly switched off. Teen put it into high G maneuver so crew couldn't move to replace him for a while, then crew drove it into the ground via dumb moves in the confusion. Hundreds died, but the pilot and children are in a heros cemetery because Russians blamed Euro folks for designing non-childproof autopilot.
Oh, we know about recent bomb in a Russian airliner out of Somalia; I think the pilot said they put up with absurd airport security at that airport. Russia shot down an airliner over the Ukraine, and much earlier over a corner of Russia on the way to Korea. In the latter case, Air Disasters showed how the Russian fighter was pressured by Korean Air slowing down when leaving Russia so he had to either shoot prematurely or stall out of the sky.
The Russian supersonic airliner crashed when showing off at Paris Air show. Some plane with a lot of Russians was directed into a collision by a Swiss traffic controller oversight, who was then murdered by a Russian relative who got a short comfy prison stay. The Polish president crashed and died landing at a Russian military base which was ill equipped for rainy weather (the Polish pilot had been bullied by his own side into being less cautious though).
Finally there is one that I could have done myself. I'm not one to ride car brakes while driving, but a Russian pilot did just that due to odd factors. He crashed on takeoff, killing a famous sports team. He was very experienced with 2 similar airliners, where one had the brake/rudder footpedals hinged at the back vs the other hinged at front. He was used to resting his feet on the close hinge, but did it on the other model. He had a progressive foot numbness problem that also runs in my family, and let the brakes drag them just short of takeoff speed.
There were more, sometimes explained by their "Outdated legislation that muddles issues of accountability, corruption, and a general lack of safety culture...", but maybe still statistically safer then folks driving their own cars.
I don't mean to demonize Russia; I have studied the language and visited there. They put us on an Aeroflot plane with a glass bombardier nose dome, and well there often seems to be some dark humor absurdist aspect to how aviation things unfold there.
Most recent Air Disasters covered a crash with their most elite pilots and equipment flying from Moscow to Hong Kong. Pilot put his young children in the cockpit and while distracted with the daughter, didn't notice his son in pilot seat yanking the controls until the autopilot partly switched off. Teen put it into high G maneuver so crew couldn't move to replace him for a while, then crew drove it into the ground via dumb moves in the confusion. Hundreds died, but the pilot and children are in a heros cemetery because Russians blamed Euro folks for designing non-childproof autopilot.
Oh, we know about recent bomb in a Russian airliner out of Somalia; I think the pilot said they put up with absurd airport security at that airport. Russia shot down an airliner over the Ukraine, and much earlier over a corner of Russia on the way to Korea. In the latter case, Air Disasters showed how the Russian fighter was pressured by Korean Air slowing down when leaving Russia so he had to either shoot prematurely or stall out of the sky.
The Russian supersonic airliner crashed when showing off at Paris Air show. Some plane with a lot of Russians was directed into a collision by a Swiss traffic controller oversight, who was then murdered by a Russian relative who got a short comfy prison stay. The Polish president crashed and died landing at a Russian military base which was ill equipped for rainy weather (the Polish pilot had been bullied by his own side into being less cautious though).
Finally there is one that I could have done myself. I'm not one to ride car brakes while driving, but a Russian pilot did just that due to odd factors. He crashed on takeoff, killing a famous sports team. He was very experienced with 2 similar airliners, where one had the brake/rudder footpedals hinged at the back vs the other hinged at front. He was used to resting his feet on the close hinge, but did it on the other model. He had a progressive foot numbness problem that also runs in my family, and let the brakes drag them just short of takeoff speed.
There were more, sometimes explained by their "Outdated legislation that muddles issues of accountability, corruption, and a general lack of safety culture...", but maybe still statistically safer then folks driving their own cars.
