There’s an appeal for donations with bank details on Antonov’s Facebook page to resurrect the AN-225 (scroll down to 25 March). I read somewhere else they need an estimated $3bn.
Peter wrote:
The airport was recaptured some days ago.
:-(
The airport was recaptured some days ago.
This caught my eye in the background because it looks like SAA livery. SAA was the Scandinavian Aviation Academy, now OSM Aviation, where I did my FI in Västerås Sweden. And indeed, the aircraft was previously an SAA trainer. I wonder if it is ruined.
Didn’t you know that all this is fake? Just listen to Russia Today.
172driver wrote:
While this is of course small beer in the larger context of what’s going on in Ukraine, this just makes me sad – and angry.
The whole thing makes a lot of people very very sad and angry. It may also spell the end for Antonov as a airplane manufacturer, if things continue as they do. All their manufacturing and engineering is near Kiev.
While this is of course small beer in the larger context of what’s going on in Ukraine, this just makes me sad – and angry.
Channel One Russia footage:
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1499641270045745152
More pictures habe surfacrd in Twitter.
