Moscow: In reference to 23 year old Boeing 737 that was crashed in Kazan, members of State Duma (Lower House of Parliament) have moved a bill to impose ban on using civilian aircraft older than 20 years, reports Dispatch News desk (DND).
Bill may bring hot debate over ban issue as the chairman of the State Duma Transport Committee Evgeny Moskvichev considers that age of vehicles doesn’t influence a technical condition because technology has approved and everything can be changed in air craft and cars if they are getting old. He suggested to consider possibility of increase of the customs duties on old planes.
Chamber won’t support the bill which limits 20 for years age of passenger planes operated in the Russian Federation, but in exchange it is possible to enter economic barriers on import of old planes, by analogy to barriers to import of second-hand cars into the Russian Federation.
The bill prohibiting use of civil aircraft older than 20 years was submitted to the State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament, on Wednesday. The bill was moved by members of United Russia Party, including Igor Barinov and Igor Igoshin. The bill does not cover state, experimental or general purpose aircraft.
It may be mentioned that Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashed Sunday evening as it was trying to land in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan resulting in the death of all persons including 44 passengers and six crew members on board.
