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Russia grounds four SSJ-100 jets due to design problems
Last Updated:2013-02-13 07:37 | Xinhua
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Russia temporarily suspended flights of its newest commercial aircraft citing designing problems, the planes' producer Sukhoi said Tuesday.

Sukhoi suspended the use of some of its SSJ-100 planes after Russian aviation safety watchdog Rosaviatsia ordered the flagship airline Aeroflot to ground four jets of the same type and suspended their certificates.

Currently Aeroflot has 10 SSJ-100 planes in its fleet and plans to order 179 more.

The regular flights of all four grounded planes could be resumed by the end of this month, Sukhoi said in a statement.

"The aircraft are currently being fixed in accordance with previously issued servicing bulletin. The first two aircraft will resume flights by the end of this week and the others by the end of the month," the designing bureau said.

Sukhoi is liable to compensate Aeroflot the losses for each day of the planes' downtime.

According to Sukhoi, the "design deficiencies" occurred in the aircraft' leak warning system, landing gear and the wing slats.

SSJ-100 is a regional jet with seating capacities of 75 or 95. It is the first commercial plane designed in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.

The plane has experienced accidents and problems after its first commercial flight in 2011.

On May 9, 2012 one of the type crashed in Indonesia during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people aboard.

On June 18, 2012 a SSJ-100 aborted a flight from Moscow to Copenhagen due to unspecified technical problems.

On July 10, 2012 a SSJ-100 experienced similar problems.

The same day, another SSJ-100 en route from Nizhni Novgorod to Moscow experienced a malfunction in the air conditioning system.

On Aug. 3, 2012 after taking off from Tartarstan capital Kazan, the plane's cabin had depressurized.

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