A passenger plane "Tu-154" of the Russian airline "Alrosa", today, Wednesday, carried out its last flight in Russia, as it made a flight in Siberia between Yakutia and Novosibirsk.

The Russian airline said, in a statement: "The only remaining plane in the civil aviation fleet, Tu-154, carried out its last flight today (October 28, 2020)."

According to the company, the plane carried out a two-hour flight from Mirny in Yakutia, and the city is the diamond capital in Russia, to Tolmachevo Airport in Novosibirsk, where it transported 140 passengers.

The director of the airline "Alrosa" Andrei Golov commented on that, saying that the plane carried out the last flight with the expiration of the airworthiness certificate, and work will be made to replace it with a modern, more efficient and more economical one, and after turning off the Tu154, the plane will remain at Tolmachevo airport until a decision is made Regarding her future fate.

The "Tu-154" is a jetliner with three medium-range engines and is classified within the narrow body aircraft designed and manufactured in the mid-1960s by the "Tupolev" Aircraft Company, and began carrying out flights since February 1972.

The model has a range of about 5,000 kilometers and is able to take off from an unpaved runway, and it has been widely used in airports in the far Arctic.

During the past five decades, this model carried millions of passengers and thousands of tons of cargo.

At the time of its production in the 1960s, it became the backbone of the Soviet airline "Aeroflot" and all the airlines operating in the USSR, with more than 1,000 aircraft of this type manufactured.

Source: "TASS"

By:Nadeemy Haded