Polish president plane crash:Tupolev 154 intro

Time 4/10/2010 05:04:00 AM
(Ту-154) is a former Soviet Tupolev Design Bureau developed the three-engine medium-range airliner. Year in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's code is called Careless. Similar models of Boeing 727 United States, the United Kingdom's Trident aircraft.

tupolev 154 in 1966 designed to replace the former Soviet Union civil aviation map -104, IL -18 aircraft. Early 1968 in Zhukovsky near Moscow factory ground taxiing tests, October 14, 1968 the first test flight. A total of six prototypes and pre-production machine for the test, starting from the first seven deliveries to the Civil Aviation Authority to use the former Soviet Union.