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| | CAAC Bans Yunshu, Tupolev Aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Following the crash of a China Southwest Airlines Tupolev Tu- 154M on Feb. 24 last year, which killed 61 people, CAAC banned all Russian-built aircraft from passenger service by August 2000. |
 | | At the same time, however, Beijing had imposed a ban on the purchase of all imported aircraft, so CAAC rescinded its ban on Tupolev aircraft in January. |
 | | The latest CAAC ban specifies Tupolev and Yunshu aircraft, including the 17-passenger Harbin Yunshu Y-I 1/12 series, which have been involved in 12 accidents since 1992. |
| www.aeronautics.ru /nws002/awst054.htm (429 words) |
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