A Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed during a test. The Russian-made aircraft made a belly landing in Iceland after performing a test flight.
The plane was carrying five people when it landed at Keflavik Airport on Sunday. Russia's SSJ-100 had all of the landing gear up and slid off the runway according to the civil aviation department of the Sukhoi Design Burea.
No one was injured or killed in the actual crash but one man injured his leg while evacuating the plane. One of the plane's engines was damaged in the crash, Nasdaq reports.
Sukhoi made the Superjet 100 in cooperation with US and European aviation corporations. Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell oversaw the development of the jet.
This particular incident had no affect on the jet's commercial use as the type of landing that was used is not performed by airlines which operate the plane. When the jet made a belly landing, the pilots were relying on the plane's fully automated landing system as they dealth with heavy crosswinds and engine failure.
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft says that airlines that use the plane do not perform fully automated landings.
Over the past few years, the SSJ-100 has had a few problems. Last May, a Superjet 100 crashed into a mountain south of Jakarta as it was performing a demonstration flight in Indonesia. All 45 people were killed in the crash.
Sukhoi says the Superjet 100 is being extensively tested under different conditions. The plane has undergone 250 different tests.
"Test flights to evaluate the performance of the automatic landing system with strong crosswind conditions are the most complicated part of the trials. Their purpose is to prevent possible in-flight emergency situations. The test flights conditions are in close proximity with extreme flight regimes in order to identify limits of safe operations of the aircraft," the company said in a statement.
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