Following the public allegation of Major Dmytro Antonov a few days ago, where he accused the Antonov Company of not doing enough to protect the An-225, employees of the company have hit back in an open letter published in eight languages. The message in the letter is clear – Major Antonov’s accusations are unfair, and reflect poorly on a company that is going through an unprecedently difficult time.
Article link: https://simpleflying.com/antonov-employees-appeal-an-225-destruction/
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If the problem was in “one” engine. Why they don’t took of with 5 engines running? Better safe than sorry.
I'm not sure what the point of him posting the initial accusations was: seems it just p!ssed some people off, who lets face it, probably have more important things to worry about until recently. Seemed an unnecessary first strike that was always going to receive retaliation.
Should have flow away with 5 engines.
I don't know who to blame except for Putin, it is a damn shame that such a beautiful aircraft and world asset was destroyed. Perhaps sometime in the future another 'Dream' can be realized. I hope so.
Do they get insurance as I think it is force majeure and they shouldn't be getting insurance when war starts unfortunately
He ..mister Antonov was right ..
A long letter is clearly a desperate move to talk is right.
Darn managers as always try to talk them out of their flaws
I think it was a missed opportunity to fly the thing out a few days before. Considering the place is nearly irreplaceable it would have been a prudent precaution
No one is right in this case.
The war is breaking out, and what do you expect Antonov to do?? They are not rich like boeing and airbus, and their staff probably is working around the clock. We are humans, error are made, thats it. I am sure the first priority in a war is not to move a not-so profit generating plane out of their place just beacause it holds a world record.
However, Antonov shouldn't question what did the piot do though, what can the pilot do？ Fly the plane out without permission? He would end it in jail then.
If I could have got that plane off of the ground with 5 engines I would have been tempted to fly it to Germany empty. What a shame it was destroyed!!!
It is the operating company’s mistake, but it is the loss of the world.
Not going to miss this soviet-era plane…time to go…
Jesus. The body isn’t even cold.
I don't know who's at fault, I only know it's such a shame that the plane was destroyed. I was always in awe of that plane. It didn't matter to me who made it, it was made and it was amazing and a show of what mankind can do.
empty, it could have flown on 5 engines easily . . . just enough fuel to get it out of there ! ! !
"Jewish curse" Jews Morawiecki from Poland touched Mria, AN 225 and it got destroyed. We can be sure Mria was well insured, as both towers from N.Y
simple, if you want to get mad about its destruction, blame the people that destroyed it, no one else is at fault here.
I am a car guy, I am not interested in planes whatsoever. But I still feel pain that something could’ve been done to prevent this disaster. But thats how it usually happens, everything could’ve been prevented somehow. All we can do now is point fingers at each other, but that wont bring back this masterpiece of engineering, teamwork and history.
I have to wonder whether the aircraft could have flown on five engines, with no cargo, and if necessary only enough fuel to reach Poland. Granted, it is probably not certificated to take off with an engine out (or actually missing), but arrangements could probably have been made.
There was about a month warning that the attack would happen. Plenty of time to save the plane.
Let's face this plane was a costly old money pit they left it there to be destroyed and got rid of a huge costly liability& insurance and government pay off too
Sounds like an insurance job…follow the money..
Whatever the reason, the destruction of the Antonov was such a sad loss
Maybe not attacking another country could have saved it.
It's a Tragic Loss as it was a one of it's kind aircraft that has done so much… No other airline company has built a comparable aircraft.
They knew this was coming DAYS before it happened. The invasion was predicted in plenty of time to get that plane out of there. Having the 6th engine missing is no excuse. That plane, when empty, could likely fly with 4 engines. This whole fiasco with the decision by someone to do nothing. It could have been flown to the USA, far out of reach of Russian bomb, Canada, England, Taiwan, Japan. Instead it was just left as a sitting duck. One man could not handle that thing alone safely but it could have been done .
Sorry I believe upper management fled the country.
Had the AN225 survived, it would have done wonders such as transporting Western donated Soviet tanks to Kyiv after the liberation of the Hostomel Airport.
That's probably why Russia made sure to destroy it as soon as they captured the airport. Should they lose it, they can prevent Mriya from helping the war effort in Ukraine.
YOU should of just flown it out as soon the engine was installed, end of story! If management is MIA, then take control. This is all BS you all probably did this on purpose for dramatic effect. What ashamed to lose the magnificent beautiful AN225. Stop saying you will rebuild it and Russia is going to pay for it, more BS and drama…
Whose plane was from the pilot or from the company.The company did nothing to insure its property in this case the plane.This is my opinion.
the thing that we all should remember that Mryia was Destroyed not because it wasn't moved but because Putin Knew that the Antonov company would've moved it sooner or later. hence why he attacked the airport as soon as he could