View settings

Font size:
Site colours:
Images

Settings

Official website of the President of Russia

Документ   /

Executive order awarding state decorations to the crew of a Tu-154 plane for courage and heroism

October 8, 2010

Dmitry Medvedev signed Executive Order On Awarding State Decorations to the Crew of a Tu-154 Aircraft of Mirny Aviation Division of AO ALROSA, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Pilots Andrei Lamanov and Yevgeny Novoselov were awarded the title of  Hero of the Russian Federation for their courage and heroism in an emergency situation. The other seven crew members were awarded the  Order of Courage.

The passenger Tu-154 aircraft with 72 passengers and nine crew members on board was flying from Yakutia to Moscow on September 7, 2010 when its electricity supply, navigation equipment and radio communications failed at an altitude of more than 10 kilometres and so it was forced to make an emergency landing at a military airfield in Izhma, Komi Republic ( Northwestern Federal District), not designed to handle large aircraft and in recent years used to serve helicopters only. No one was injured during the landing and the plane received only slight damage.

October 8, 2010