Airline passengers are more likely to be killed in Russia than anywhere else in the world. There are about 315 different airlines in Russia, rapidly dwindling to around 53 when the dust settles. The number of fatalities per million passengers has risen from 1 in 1990 to 5.5 in 1993. The breakup of Aeroflot into hundreds of regional carriers that cannot afford to properly maintain their planes has a lot to do with it. Pilots, who make an average of $21 a month, have even spoken out. Oh yeah, and 65 Russian airlines went bankrupt in 1997, and all those horror stories you've heard all are true.
Aeroflot
4, Frunzenskaya Naberezhnaya;
20/1, Ulitsa Petrovka;7, Korovy
Val; 19, Ulitsa Yeniseyskaya
Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 155-5045 926-6278
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