Nearly 200 pilots of Russian airline Azur Air may have their licenses revoked or be suspended from flying due to the illegal installation of a Boeing 757/767 aircraft simulator. Telegram channel reports this Puree.
The airline introduced Russia’s first Boeing 757/767 full flight simulator at the pilot training center in Vnukovo in November 2022. The simulator was delivered on February 24, 2022, but after this date Boeing refused to send experts to install and operate it.
It is stated that the airline, with the encouragement of Azur Air president Evgeniy Korolev, remodeled the device by installing it in the training center, violating the ban on remodeling because the facility is protected by the Armed Forces. A strategically important facility.
It was reported that the transport prosecutor’s office organized an inspection at the end of 2023, in which the company could be punished and the pilots could be deprived of their licenses.
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