@AugmentedB737 Up to 2001, apparently only a couple of losses were due to 'technical malfunction'. Most accidents had nothing at all to do with the design. Six were shot down during armed conflict and most of the rest were navigational, pilot error, freak accidents etc. This is because so many of them operated in harsh climatic conditions in poorly serviced areas over a long period. It's unlikely that any other big passenger airliner could have functioned in the same conditions.
@89vliegaap I'm not sure Airbus or Boeing can operate in some of the conditions the 154 has as it operates from gravel/unpaved airstrips and can be maintained with basic facilities. Planes servicing the same areas from now would be more likely IL-76s or AN turboprops. People often don't realise that the 154 carried half of all Soviet era air traffic (137 mill passengers/year) and at that time Aeroflot was by far the world's largest airline.
@raptors222222 Well to give you some idea of how big, in 1989 Air Transport World reported that before the Soviet Union breakup, Aeroflot had 2,500 jet airliners, more than 2,500 turboprops, 9,000 helicopters and smaller planes, and employed half a million staff. By 1992, about 70 airlines were flying in the Commonwealth of Independent States, nearly half of them former divisions of Aeroflot.
@Bugel852 Make what like what??? Be specific in what you are talikng about. And are you referring to the space shuttle. You can't compare space flight (which is far more dangerous) to air travel.
