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Antonov Official Fired after Destruction of World’s Largest Cargo Airplane
A former An-225 pilot said NATO had warned Antonov in January about Russia’s impending invasion and recommended that Mriya be deployed outside the country as a safety measure, but the aircraft was down for repairs. (www.flyingmag.com) Más...of course it ended up biting the person who wasn't responsible. seems as corporate bs in eastern europe is no different than it is in the us. reward incompetence and punish those who do good work.
If he said the airplane could not be flown out of danger because it was in need of repairs, he got fired for the original screw up and lying about it afterwards. I have it on good authority It was in the air 3 weeks earlier, which was well after the invasion was "imminent".
It landed there on Feb 5 and was undergoing schedule C maintenance check, including the removal of an engine.
The engine removal was to facilitate the repair of an AN124! A Ballast engine could have been fitted and flown out for a ferry run on 4 engines. It was a modifyed B check.
Besides that, the AN22 and a few other craft were perfectly capable of re-locating, yet there they sit destroyed.
Besides that, the AN22 and a few other craft were perfectly capable of re-locating, yet there they sit destroyed.
yeah - well when the Russians are knocking on your door - your first priority is and absolutely should be for your kids and family. Not airplanes. No - not even the 225.
yeah - well nice try on the save the women and children first thing but it doesn't fit the timeline since the Russians were knocking on the door for a solid six months... and just in case they were in the shower and couldn't hear the door everyone who wasn't deaf was screaming "Hey Ukraine, Russia is knocking on your door and they look pissed" at the top of their lungs.
Somebody effed up, and effed up royally.
Somebody effed up, and effed up royally.
Feb 10th That is when those Antonov higher ups were told what should be done. There would have been plenty of time to evacuate EVERYONE and everything but those idiots didnt even take the families to Lepzig!!
At the end of the day, people are way more important than an iconic aircraft. Goes to show you where priorities lay.
That said, years ago, while stationed at Ramstein Yugoslavia fell apart. As the new Air Mobility Command changed hands from Military Airlift Command within the restructuring of all US forces at end of the Cold War, we shifted balance to a more "humanitarian" effort.At the same time we were also dealing with Somalia, a no fly zone around Iraq, and never really ceased flying over Russia and China. All while on a budget and new regulations. It was exciting and fun while a 20 year old Senior Airman as night shift supervisor of Terminating Air Cargo Processing at Ramstein.
That said, I went through the "First Gulf War", airlifting "humanitarian" supplies to both former East Bloc countries as well as the Soviet Union, Somalia, and a staging effort within Kenya for the war going on on in Rwanda, and to cap it off the Yugoslavian Civil War. All that between 1990-'94. After I got out of the USAF, worked as a transportation clerk in support for the US Army in support of "peacekeeping" in Bosnia.
I was fortunate to not have "gone down range", but I was certainly close enough to be 95% involved. At the end of the day, I was lucky. Some of my friends didn't make it back. Just take that into consideration.
Sorry to go off and make this political. Passing it forward to some of my USAF higher ups who served in Vietnam and passed this Gung ho 18 year A1C at the time when I volunteered to go down range during Desert Sheild while I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall.
That said, years ago, while stationed at Ramstein Yugoslavia fell apart. As the new Air Mobility Command changed hands from Military Airlift Command within the restructuring of all US forces at end of the Cold War, we shifted balance to a more "humanitarian" effort.At the same time we were also dealing with Somalia, a no fly zone around Iraq, and never really ceased flying over Russia and China. All while on a budget and new regulations. It was exciting and fun while a 20 year old Senior Airman as night shift supervisor of Terminating Air Cargo Processing at Ramstein.
That said, I went through the "First Gulf War", airlifting "humanitarian" supplies to both former East Bloc countries as well as the Soviet Union, Somalia, and a staging effort within Kenya for the war going on on in Rwanda, and to cap it off the Yugoslavian Civil War. All that between 1990-'94. After I got out of the USAF, worked as a transportation clerk in support for the US Army in support of "peacekeeping" in Bosnia.
I was fortunate to not have "gone down range", but I was certainly close enough to be 95% involved. At the end of the day, I was lucky. Some of my friends didn't make it back. Just take that into consideration.
Sorry to go off and make this political. Passing it forward to some of my USAF higher ups who served in Vietnam and passed this Gung ho 18 year A1C at the time when I volunteered to go down range during Desert Sheild while I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall.
It had an engine removed to facilitate the repair of an AN124, but as Dymtro Antonov explained weeks ago, the unit could have been replaced with a ballast unit and the craft flown to Liepzig under 4 engine taxi. AN22 and another AN124 were to carry tools and other parts needed. Antonov Management were to have facilitated the Lepzig relocate but instead they fired the logisitics operator in Germany. Then all H broke out in Ukraine