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Bad year for Russian crashes 
  
 A plane crash in Petrozavodsk in June killed 44 people 
  
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 The crash of a plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team is the latest in an extraordinary number of air accidents in Russia this year. 
  
 Air safety has been notoriously bad in Russia - but it had seemed to be improving. 
  
 Since the beginning of the year at least 15 Russian planes have crashed, killing 120 people - and these figures only relate to civilian flights. 
  
 That is a 53% increase in crashes, and a fourfold increase in deaths, compared to the same period last year, according to Russia's deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. 
  
 The first accident of 2011 happened as early as News Year's Day, when a Tupolev 154 airliner operated by Kogalymavia burned on the ground at the airport in Surgut, central Russia. 
  
 In April, President Dmitry Medvedev criticised the aircraft industry and called for the updating of the country's civilian fleet. 
  
 Later, he urged the ministry of transport to consider withdrawing dated Tupolev-134 and Antonov-24 planes from use in regular passenger flights. 
  
 Experts say many other types of old Soviet aircraft should also be withdrawn from use. Among those are Tupolev-154, Antonov-12 and Mi-8. 
  
 One recently crashed Mi-8 helicopter had been in operation since 1977. At the time of the disaster it had not reached its official end of service. 
  
 On the other hand, experts say, planes are usually built to last for several decades, and most crashes are caused by human error. 
  
 Maintenance issues 
  
 "You can fly a plane even if it's 40 years old," says veteran Soviet pilot Oleg Smirnov. "As long as you maintain it properly." 
  
 The majority of Russian air disasters, Mr Smirnov believes, happen because airlines' determination to cut costs. 
  
 Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency has said that, from 1 January 2012, only airlines operating 10 or more planes will be allowed to operate long-distance passenger flights. In 2013 that number is to double. 
  
 Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov has welcomed the proposal. 
  
 President Medvedev agrees as well. "The situation with civilian aircraft industry has to change dramatically," he said, speaking in Yaroslavl on Wednesday. 
  
 But the pilot Oleg Smirvov is convinced that simply forcing the air companies to become bigger is not enough to ensure the safety of flights. "Large carriers also have crashes," he points out. 
  
 Mr Smirnov suggests the government should enforce strict regulations on the carriers "so they can't afford to make money by sparing people's lives". 
  
 As for its aircraft fleet, Russia has recently been making an effort to update it. 
  
 The Russian super jet RRJ-100 is about to go into mass production, as well as the cargo planes An-148 and An-158, made as a joint effort by Russia and Ukraine. 
  
 But the majority of planes operated by Russian airliners are still the old vehicles built in Soviet times, as well as dated foreign liners. ||||| 1 of 6. Emergency service workers investigate the wreckage of the UTair airlines ATR 72 passenger plane that crashed near the Siberian city of Tyumen April 2, 2012. 
  
 MOSCOW (Reuters) - A passenger plane crashed and burst into flames after takeoff in Siberia on Monday, killing 31 people and putting the spotlight on Russia's poor air-safety record before Vladimir Putin's return as president. 
  
 Thirteen survivors were pulled from the wreckage but one later died after being rushed by helicopter to hospital in the city of Tyumen, some 1,720 km (1,070 miles) east of Moscow, emergency officials said. 
  
 Television footage showed the UTair airlines ATR 72, which had snapped in two, lying in a snowy field with only the tail and rear visible. Emergency workers sifted through the wreckage and cleared away the snow. 
  
 An investigative committee said the most likely cause of the crash was a technical malfunction as the 21-year-old twin-engine, turbo-prop plane carried its four crew and 39 passengers on a flight to the oil town of Surgut. 
  
 "I went out on to my porch and heard a bang, saw a small flash and smoke came out. It turned, with smoke coming out, started to lose height and came down in the field. If it had turned a bit further, it would have hit us," a local resident, identified only as Alexei, told RIA news agency. 
  
 He said he often saw aircraft fly past, and the plane appeared not to be on the usual flight path: "It should have been behind my house but it was in front of it." 
  
 The investigative committee said the plane had notched up 35,000 flying hours since going into operation in 1992 and had not had a "serious" technical check since 2010. 
  
 Yuri Alekhin, head of the regional branch of the Emergencies Ministry, told Russian television at the scene of the crash that the "black box" flight recorder had been found and contact had been lost with the plane just over three minutes after take-off. 
  
 Surgutneftegas, Russia's fourth-largest oil company, said in a statement that it had lost some employees in the crash but did not say how many and did not name them. 
  
 RUSSIA'S POOR SAFETY RECORD 
  
 The crash was the worst in Russia since a passenger plane slammed into a riverbank near the city of Yaroslavl after takeoff on September 7, 2011, killing 44 people and wiping out the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team. 
  
 President Dmitry Medvedev and Putin, who is prime minister until he takes over as president on May 7, called for moves to improve Russia's air safety after that crash, including better training and improved conditions on board. 
  
 But their opponents on Monday drew attention to the lack of action since then and the fact that Transport Minister Igor Levitan remains in office. 
  
 "It's typical that 'the minister of catastrophes' does not receive even a cosmetic reprimand for all the chaos on public transport. They cover for each other," opposition ecologist Yevgenia Chirikova said in a message on her Twitter account. 
  
 Putin said last September that airlines should put passengers' safety above commercial considerations and ordered the government to draft proposals for improving condition on planes and at airports, but ignored calls to dismiss Levitan. 
  
 Putin, 59, has seen off the biggest opposition protests since he rose to power 12 years ago but faces increasing criticism and is under pressure to do more to tackle chronic problems such as corruption and Russia's poor safety record. 
  
 Russia and the former Soviet republics combined for one of the world's worst air-traffic safety records last year, with a total accident rate almost three times the world average, according to the International Air Transport Association. 
  
 IATA said in December that global airline safety rates had improved in 2011 but that the rate had risen in Russia and the CIS group of former Soviet republics. 
  
 Gunther Matschnigg, IATA senior vice-president for safety, said a key problem in Russia was that pilots and ground technicians were having to adapt to a growing number of a highly sophisticated aircraft. 
  
 He said Russian aviation officials and political leaders had accepted that pilot training needed rapid improvement. 
  
 UTair has three ATR-72 craft made by the French-Italian manufacturer ATR, according to the Russian airline's website www.utair.ru. 
  
 ATR is an equal partnership between two major European aeronautics players, Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica company, and EADS. 
  
 (Additional reporting by Steve Gutterman and Gleb Bryanski; editing by Elizabeth Piper) |||||
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At least 31 people were killed when a Russian plane carrying 43 passengers and crew members crashed in Siberia this morning. The ATR-72 turboprop plane owned by UTair had just left Tyumen on a flight north to the oil town of Surget when it went down. The cause is unknown. Twelve people were airlifted to hospitals, and at least five of them were critically injured, reports the BBC. Russia has experienced an extraordinary number of air accidents. Last year the nation witnessed a 53% increase in crashes and a fourfold boost in deaths in civilian planes alone. Fifteen planes crashed, killing 120 people in 2011.