Media: Mexican Interjet has resumed flights of its six SSJ-100 – TASS

MEXICO city, 6 Jan. /TASS/. Mexican company Interjet has resumed flights to six of the 11 in its fleet of Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100 (SSJ-100), the operation of which was suspended due to identified technical problems. This was reported on Thursday on its website, the newspaper El Financiero.

According to her, the other five aircraft will be put into operation again gradually after the passage of the maintenance. “We expect that renovations will be completed ahead of schedule and, thus, until the end of January the entire fleet of 22 aircraft SSJ-100 will work in a normal regime”, – the newspaper quotes the company’s statement.

“the Repair working group, which included experts on aircraft (aviation holding company) “Dry” and airlines, under the supervision of the General administration of civil aviation,” said Interjet.

on December 27 it became known that Interjet has stopped flights 11 of 22 in its fleet of Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100 (SSJ-100) in accordance with the Directive of the Russian aviation authorities due to identified technical problems. According to General Director of the Mexican company Jose Luis Garza, the carrier conducted a review of 22 aircraft SSJ-100. As a result, 11 of them had found technical problems, the rest of the cars revealed a “potential anomalies”, because of which their flights have been suspended. “We have 11 aircraft are on the ground waiting for the decision of the aviation authorities and the manufacturer, so that we could re-use them in the regular flights”, – said Garza.

the same day Minister of industry and trade of Russia Denis Manturov said that the Russian SSJ-100 is operated by Interjet, have a technical problem. “There is a small technical problem that will be resolved soon,” – said Manturov, answering journalists on the question of why Mexican company checks the aircraft SSJ-100. Earlier it was reported that Rosaviation has suspended the operation of several aircraft SSJ-100 because of a defect of the stabilizer. As stated by the developer of the aircraft “Sukhoi Civil aircraft”, the defect is not of a critical nature.