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[Iain_]

The AOC of Red Wings has been suspended effective today in the wake of the crash at Vnukovo and 3 other overrun incidents within the past 4 months.

From Avherald's article on the overrun on Jan 29th:

On Feb 1st 2013 Rosaviatsia reported that the incident was caused by the crew failing to include the right hand thrust lever into their landing actions and announced that the air operator's certificate of Red Wings is being suspended effective Feb 4th 2013. The decision was made after an unscheduled examination of the airline's flight operations and maintenance activities between Jan 10th and 16th found "numerous significant violations in the organisation of flight operations, aircraft maintenance, pilot training and other systemic shortcomings, evidenced by the incident on Jan 29th 2013. In addition Rosaviatsia reasoned that Red Wings lack the financial resources to provide ongoing operations and thus does not allow to maintain a proper level of safety.

[Cactus]

And all it took was a 5x fatal air crash for the Russian regulators to act. Did they not feel any need whatsoever to investigate or audit this operation? Piss poor oversight IMHO.