RUSSIA's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has sacked Andrey Boginsky, CEO of Russian planemaker PJSC Yakovlev, and Konstantin Timofeev, managing director of aerospace giant JSC Tupolev, reports Moscow's Kommersant daily.
They have been reportedly removed for the 'failure of the civil aviation programme', seemingly suggesting that Russia's plan to produce 1,000 passenger aircraft by 2030 indigenously is not going to plan.
The dismissals were by order of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (the premiership is a post that President Putin once held for four years - although he moved effective power to the post from the presidency during his tenure.
UAC is the publicly owned, consolidated Russian aerospace and defence company formed in 2006 by merging Ilyushin, Irkut, Mikoyan, Sukhoi, Tupolev and Yakovlev.
Yakovlev CEO Mr Boginsky was fired for 'the failure of the civil aviation programme'. Kommersant also said that there are sources in the industry saying his sacking was not at the direction of the upper echelons of the Russian government.
Russian airliners include the Ilyushin Il-96, Yakovlev/Irkut MC-21, Sukhoi Superjet 100, and the Tupolev Tu-214. Recently, the Russian airline S7 Airlines contracted to purchase 100 Tu-214s.
Meanwhile, the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot has reportedly lost interest in the SuperJet and is instead interested in purchasing MC-21s.
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They have been reportedly removed for the 'failure of the civil aviation programme', seemingly suggesting that Russia's plan to produce 1,000 passenger aircraft by 2030 indigenously is not going to plan.
The dismissals were by order of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (the premiership is a post that President Putin once held for four years - although he moved effective power to the post from the presidency during his tenure.
UAC is the publicly owned, consolidated Russian aerospace and defence company formed in 2006 by merging Ilyushin, Irkut, Mikoyan, Sukhoi, Tupolev and Yakovlev.
Yakovlev CEO Mr Boginsky was fired for 'the failure of the civil aviation programme'. Kommersant also said that there are sources in the industry saying his sacking was not at the direction of the upper echelons of the Russian government.
Russian airliners include the Ilyushin Il-96, Yakovlev/Irkut MC-21, Sukhoi Superjet 100, and the Tupolev Tu-214. Recently, the Russian airline S7 Airlines contracted to purchase 100 Tu-214s.
Meanwhile, the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot has reportedly lost interest in the SuperJet and is instead interested in purchasing MC-21s.
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