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    RUSSIAN PM ORDERS DEPUTY TO LEAD FLIGHT SAFETY REFORM EFFORTS

    AP Worldstream
    Aug 31, 2006

    Russia's prime minister on Thursday ordered Vice-Premier Sergei
    Ivanov to take charge of efforts to improve flight safety following
    three major crashes involving Russian passenger jets or airports in
    recent months.

    "We must now make decisions and take active measures," Prime Minister
    Mikhail Fradkov said during a Cabinet meeting. "We cannot wait for
    the next tragedy."

    With the Transport Ministry due to submit flight safety a proposal
    for government consideration Friday, Fradkov ordered Ivanov, who is
    also Defense Minister, to lead the effort. The measures are to involve
    both civilian and military flights, Russian news agencies reported.

    Some of Fradkov's comments were broadcast prominently on state-run
    television, in an effort to assure Russians that the government is
    taking action in response to the crashes.

    Fradkov said that work on developing ways improve safety "must
    be conducted in an open manner, because people want to know the
    situation," RIA-Novosti reported.

    A Tu-154 jet belonging to Russia's Pulkovo Airlines crashed in Ukraine
    last week after encountering a storm, killing all 170 people aboard.

    An Airbus A-310 of the Russian airline S7 skidded off a runway and
    burst into flames in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in July, killing
    124 people, and an A-320 of the Armenian airline Armavia crashed
    into the Black Sea while trying to land in the Russian resort city
    of Sochi in rough weather in May, killing all 113 people aboard.
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