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Russia passenger jet crashes near Moscow during test flight (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ssj 100 has a very spotty safety record.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Russian aviation in general has a pretty spotty safety record, and the sanctions certainly haven't done them any favors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

All due to Ukrainian saboteurs, of course.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How many Boeing parts did they use when building it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Boeing has probably been selling them parts that made even Boeing QC go "yikes"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

None. It’s a Sukhoi

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The joke

Your head

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is about as big of W as Boeing gonna get nowadays haha