A Russian official says the nation’s chief, Vladimir Putin, will not get caught in a aircraft crash if he travels on home plane, state information company TASS reported on Tuesday.
“The Russian president makes use of home plane. These are very dependable automobiles,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov instructed journalists.
Peskov was talking at a press briefing when he was requested concerning the latest aviation accidents that claimed the lives of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima.
Raisi was flying over northwestern Iran when his helicopter crashed on Could 19. Iran’s overseas minister, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, and different officers have been additionally on board the helicopter. Nobody survived the lethal incident.
Chilima, in the meantime, was killed in a aircraft crash together with 9 different passengers on Tuesday. Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera mentioned Chilima’s aircraft was discovered “utterly destroyed” close to a hill in northern Malawi.
Nevertheless, Peskov mentioned such incidents have been unlikely to happen with Russian plane, given what he mentioned have been Russia’s rigorous security requirements.
“All equipment in our nation that transports residents can be maintained on the correct stage. There are very strict requirements on this regard, that are, after all, noticed,” Peskov mentioned.
“We’ve monitoring companies,” he continued. “The system works.”
To make certain, Russia would not precisely have the very best report in the case of flight security.
In February, the Jet Airliner Crash Information Analysis Centre (JACDEC) revealed that Russian flight security incidents have greater than doubled prior to now 12 months, going from 37 circumstances in 2022 to 81 in 2023.
The Russian aviation business’s flight security issues are largely because of crippling financial sanctions the West imposed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Such restrictions have made it troublesome for Russia’s airways to keep up their plane since they can not purchase new planes or components.
The truth is, the variety of flight security incidents in Russia could be a lot increased, says JACDEC founder and CEO Jan-Arwed Richter.
“These numbers solely mirror circumstances that turned public. There’s nonetheless a darkish determine of unreported incidents,” Richter instructed The Telegraph in February.
