Moscow, June 23 (Interfax) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an analysis for removing Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft from regular flights as of 2012.
"I have instructed the ministry to prepare a forced decommissioning of Tu-134s. It is time to do so," Medvedev said on Thursday.
A Tu-134 belonging to the RusAir airline on a charter flight from Moscow to Petrozavodsk crash-landed outside the Petrozavodsk airport late on June 20. The incident killed 45 people, and seven others were badly injured.
The condition of seven air crash survivors remains stable.
