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Last year, a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet-100 slammed into a volcano during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people on board.
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Already, Russia is seeking export orders for its smaller Superjet (a demonstrator model of which crashed in Indonesia in May, though apparently not due to any technical fault).
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Alexey Fedorov, the boss of Irkut, the subsidiary making the MC-21, says eventually it and the Superjet, made by Sukhoi, will evolve into a family of planes with common technology, but this will take time.
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