Published May 9, 2012 12:00AM
A new Russian passenger plane carrying 46 people is missing after departing on a trial flight from West Java, in Indonesia, on Wednesday. The aircraft, known as Superjet, was on only its second test flight and was carrying a mix of Indonesian and Russian businesspeople. It is the first commercial plane produced in Russia since the end of the Cold War and represents a major effort to revive the country’s domestic aviation industry. A search operation is expected to begin Thursday morning.
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