Soviet airliner grounded
NZPA-Reuter Moscow The Soviet Union’s Tupo-lev-144 supersonic airliner, one of the most expensive failures in aviation history, has been grounded for good, says a senior official of the State airline, Aeroflot. Nikolai Poluyanchik, head of Aeroflot’s international traffic division, told a press conference the airline had decided after tests and a few months service that the Tu-144’s running costs were too high to justify its use. “We are not going to use it. We are simply not prepared to use an aircraft which has proved to be inefficient,” he said. A prototype of the plane crashed at the Paris Air Show in 1973 and informed Soviet sources say a second Tu-144 went down near Moscow in early 1978.
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