Aeroflot is chasing a range of options to beef up its capacity ahead of an across-the-board domestic expansion unveiled last week. To meet high traffic targets under the summer schedule, the carrier ...

A plane crash in northwestern Iran on Wednesday involved the Tupolev Tu-154 airliner, a Russian-built workhorse which went into service in 1972. Here are some details about the Tu-154 and its safety ...

The Tupolev's Tu-154 (search) remains the standard medium range airliner on domestic flights in Russia and other former Soviet states and to a lesser extent in eastern Europe and Iran (search). The Tu ...

Video images and photographs have emerged of the moment when an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 suffered an uncontained engine failure early in its take-off run at St Petersburg Pulkovo Airport. The aircraft, ...

Aeroflot is selling all of its Tupolev jets, the workhorse passenger aircraft of the former East Bloc. Once they are gone, only six of about 100 jets in Aeroflot’s fleet will be Russian-made. And ...

On a recent dawn flight aboard an Aeroflot Tu-154 from Novosibirsk to Moscow, the 158 passengers got a breakfast of hot water (for instant coffee), a chunk of unchewable beef, a mealy slice of ...

A crash in Siberia on New Year's Day that killed three people is only the latest tragedy involving Tupelov aircraft. Russia has grounded all TU-154B planes until investigators determine what caused a ...

MOSCOW — Aeroflot’s symbol is still the winged hammer and sickle, but otherwise, the former communist carrier has mostly shrugged off its Soviet past. The strongest evidence yet: By the end of the ...

(Reuters) - Polish President Lech Kaczynski was among 97 people killed when their Russian-built Tupolev Tu-154 airliner crashed in thick fog in Russia on Saturday. Here are some details about the ...

(Reuters) - A plane crash in northwestern Iran on Wednesday involved the Tupolev Tu-154 airliner, a Russian-built workhorse which went into service in 1972. Here are some details about the Tu-154 and ...