Aviastar-TU
Aviastar-TU Airlines is a cargo charter airline which operates principally out of Ramenskoye Airport in Moscow, Russia.
Its headquarters are in Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast.The Aviastar-TU fleet consists of the following aircraft :
Aircraft | In Fleet | Orders | Passengers |
Boeing 757-200 | 3 | 0 | Cargo |
Tupolev Tu-204-100 | 4 | 0 | Cargo |
Total | 7 | 0 | |
RA-64024 is in DHL colors, RA-64051 and RA-64052 are in Russian Post livery, and RA-64032 is in Cainiao livery.
Aviastar-TU Airlines, as an aircraft operator, has a historical affiliation with Aviastar-SP, an aircraft builder.Accidents and incidents
- On 22 March 2010, Aviastar-TU Flight 1906, a Tupolev Tu-204 crashed on approach to Moscow Domodedovo International Airport. Only eight crew members were on board, and all of them survived. Immediately upon the accident, the Russian aviation supervisory authority suspended Aviastar-TU from carrying passengers, pending an examination of the airline's flight operations. In September 2010, the Russian aviation supervisory authority, МАК, released its final report into the accident. The cause of the accident was attributed to pilot error, with a number of factors contributing to the accident including inadequate crew training and lack of cockpit resource management, failure of autoflight systems and regulatory violations by Aviastar-TU.