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With today’s sensibilities the idea that you would fly civilian passengers regularly on a captured airplane sounds crazy. An airplane like that is basically un
by krisoft 4y ago
With today’s sensibilities the idea that you would fly civilian passengers regularly on a captured airplane sounds crazy.
An airplane like that is basically unsupported. You have no idea if your maintenance is adequate or if they have discovered any flight safety issues with the type. How would you know the provenance of your spare parts? Are they the right stuff or the rejects from some scrapyard? What if you discover a minor issue who do you contact to check if any corrective action is needed? “So about your airplane we confiscated a few years ago: the fifth spar has a longitudinal crack. Bela recons he can drill it to stop it from further propagating. Can we still fly it?” Would be a funny conversation.
- somat 4y agoEh, it's was a dc-3, not only a very well known aircraft, the soviet union actually manufactured them under license as the li-2. So a well understood airframe. The aircraft in question was rewinged at one point, and the engines replaced with the the soviet engines used on the li-2, I would guess they understood the airplane well enough. Reading a couple of articles it sounds more like they were having too much fun on their excursion flight.