Tupolev 154 crash in Siberia

Fears about the condition of Russia’s aging airliners are explored by Robert Cottrell in the Financial Times of 5 July 2001. From a low of 263 deaths in five crashes in 1994, last year the safety record was better than that of many western countries, with nine deaths in a single commercial aircraft crash. But initial investigation into the loss of TU-154, with 145 deaths, suggest human error at fault.