Investigation finds ice on runway contributed to Yakutia SSJ100 overrun

Polina Montag-Girmes October 11, 2018
The runway at Yakutsk airport was iced over when a Yakutia Airline Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) skidded off Oct. 9, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia said in an Oct. 10 statement. The runway friction coefficient was rated as 0.45 before the landing—information that was passed along...
Polina Montag-Girmes

Polina joined the Air Transport World team in 2011, covering Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States. She studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked as a journalist for Russian business and airline publications since 2000.

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