All Tu-154 flights suspended

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - All flights of Tu-154 have been suspended till the causes of air crash of December 25 are established, RBK reported.

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"The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation decided to temporarily terminate all flights of Tu-154 airplanes until investigation is complete", - the course wrote.

According to the source, this decision will not affect the air service due to a limited number of airplanes of this type are in operation.  

Earlier Minister of Transport of Russia Maxim Sokolov told that the airplanes of Tu-154B-2 modification operate for the Ministry of Defense only, therefore the decision regarding their future operation will be made by the Ministry. In civil aviation, according to Sokolov, only Tu-154M are used, and their further operation is not being questioned.