The Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) crash occurred on 9 May 2012 when an SSJ-100 aircraft disappeared on a demonstration flight operating out of Halim Perdanakusuma Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia.[1] On 10 May, the wreckage of the Sukhoi Superjet was spotted on a cliff in Mount Salak, a volcano in the province of West Java. Due to the widespread debris field where the aircraft hit the mountain, rescuers concluded that the aircraft directly impacted the rocky side of the mountain and that there was "no chance of survival." The aircraft involved in the accident was a Sukhoi SSJ-100-95, registration RA-97004, msn 95004. The aircraft was manufactured in 2009 and had accumulated over 800 flight hours at the time of its disappearance.[4] The Superjet 100 is the first production airliner produced in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The crashed aircraft was undertaking a demonstration tour dubbed "Welcome to Asia!" throughout Central and Southeast Asia, having previously visited Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Myanmar; it would have proceeded to Laos and Vietnam. At the time of the crash, Sukhoi had 42 orders of the type from Indonesia, 170 in total, and was planning to produce up to 1000 aircraft. In the decade between 2002--2012 there were seven aviation crashes in the area of Mount Salak. Three people were killed in a crash of a training aircraft not long before the SSJ-100 accident; 18 people were killed in a crash of an Indonesian Air Force military aircraft in
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