'No Sign of Survivors' at Sukhoi SuperJet-100 Crash Site

May 10, 2012 from Russia Today

Indonesian rescuers claim there's no hope for survivors after a Russian airliner smashed into a mountain face. The teams are now trying to tackle challenging terrain to reach the wreckage of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 which went down on Wednesday. RT's Priya Sridhar reports from Jakarta.

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The Sukhoi Superjet 100 is a modern, fly-by-wire regional jet in the 75- to 95-seat category. With development starting in 2000, the airliner was designed by the civil aircraft division of the Russian aerospace company Sukhoi in co-operation with its main partner Boeing. Its m... Explore this topic

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