Airplaneski! A documentary on the fall of Aeroflot and Soviet Aviation Part 4

This is a really great documentary, showing what happened to the mighty Soviet Aeroflot after 1991. It had broken into 400 smaller airlines, each with little money and struggles. Indeed, all of Russia was plunged into chaos after the USSR collapsed. This documentary has a fascinating first hand account and story from pilots, passengers, flight attendants and airport staff.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Planes
• Laning
• Take
• Off
• Russian
• Soviet
• Aircraft
• Aeroflot
• Documentary
• Tupolev
• Antonov
• Ilyushin
• struggle
• Boeing
• Airbus
• Tu-154
• IL-62
• Cockpit
• Cabin
• Airport
• Airplane

[youngfart40]

I like how the overhead bins are open, no doors, what happens in turbulence? LOLOL

[drivojulianrobotnik]

@youngfart40 Open overhead bins exist on very old planes before the 70s. The USSR was late as usual to the party with closed bins, which first arrived on the Tu-154 in 1969. ("New Western Cabin")

Back in the day, even the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 had the same unsafe open bins. But keep in mind, people in the 50s-70s did not carry 9 tons of luggage with them into the cabin, checked luggage was included with the price of a ticket. Instead, hats and coats would be up there.

[MEATYOKERRable]

Yes, Soviet Aeroflot sucked, because it was the only ride anywhere. However in a way, is it really the fault of Aeroflot for being so shoddy, or the system that kept them that way???

[drivojulianrobotnik]

@MEATYOKERRable This is post soviet aeroflot of the 90s, even worse as it was being torn apart. Sure service sucks, but at least it was safe before 1991 as the planes were kept in proper maintenance. Now after 1991 everything decayed.

By 2001 and on the "babyflots" had mostly died off. There are not as many airlines as created in the chaotic split-up in 1993.

[cjracer1000]

How long ago was this created? Is this 80s/90s era, or newer?

[drivojulianrobotnik]

@cjracer1000 In 1994.

[worldeaglewu]

Oh dear, this truly brought a lot sensations to me. I wasn't old enough at that time to experience and understand the after shock of the early 90s. But now through these videos I feel as if I had gone through that era. What would you say about the people in that era compare to now? In general I just feel they were more genuine.

[InfiniteMushroom]

@naisi So who is the answer or perhaps, a better option? Gennady Zyuganov? 

[naisi]

@InfiniteMushroom Western capital firms may -to some very little extent- have contributed to this, but the main reason are the so called "Oligarchs" that robbed state property. Putin is their patron.

[InfiniteMushroom]

@naisi After rereading my comment, recalling how things went down in the Yeltsin era, my comments still stand.

HOWEVER, you ARE correct regarding Russia's inability to make best use of their resources. Rolling Stone columnist, PJ O'Rourke, had plenty to say about the chronic incompetence of Soviet life. THAT DOES NOT EXCUSE the naked robbery by New York - London vulture capitalists and their exacerbation of an already broken system.

Re Putin, he repaired much of the damage done by Yeltsin

[naisi]

@InfiniteMushroom Do you actually believe all this bullshit you write? Russia does not prosper because it's people are obviously unable to properly use the resources that god has blessed them with, instead, the rich people are just decadent and not interested in the country moving forward. Luckily it seems that the little people are waking up, moving against criminals like Putin at last.

[DeLorean4]

2:50 Queen Elizabeth II

[ultramegatrion]

I can't believe what that english guy goes thru...

[flighty1996]

@MEATYOKERRable

russian aircraft are just as good as western

[TheLoyalOfficer]

At least the pilots are well screened.

[InfiniteMushroom]

@drivojulianrobotnik Welcome to the "democracy" and "capitalism" we promised you!

Don't you love how Yeltsin let Goldman Sachs and Bank of England back up the U-Haul truck, clean out the miserable Soviet estate, then rape and loot everybody else? Believe me, Gorbachev and Yeltsin got their payoff after they left office.

I guess Putin is unable or unwilling to extricate Russia out from under the global banking mafia. Russia is bleeding money to the banksters the way Weimar Germany bled after WW1.