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A Tale of Two T-Tails

Steve Scott

Monday, September 18th, 2006

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Inescapably Floored by Design Flaws When Russia's Pravda disclosed that the Pulkovo TU154 (reg: RA-85185) that crashed on Aug. 22, forty minutes after takeoff, had been trying to outclimb a thunderstorm, the air safety cognoscenti were immediately aware of a likely scenario for what had transpired. The upshot: the aircraft was doomed by the kinds of design flaws that call for eternal vigilance from air safety regulators. The latest data from the MAK (Interstate Aviation Committee) reports that Flight 612…

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