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The Yak-42 is a regional jet airliner created in the USSR in the late 1970s. The aircraft was created by the Yakovlev Design Bureau based on the layout of the successful Yak-40. With a high level of efficiency, comfort and acceptable flight characteristics, the Yak-42 was supposed to update the regional aircraft fleet, replacing the Il-18 and Tu-134. However, a series of aviation incidents and disasters delayed its entry into the niche of mass air transportation. Further modernization again made it a successful airliner, but by the early 1990s the collapse of the USSR and the fall of the air transportation market followed, which leveled out demand. Thus, a fairly effective regional airliner was never able to take its place under the Sun and, failing to replace the old Soviet aircraft, ceded its niche to the new Russian SSJ 100. A total of 187 airliners were produced. Production has ceased. A small number of the planes still fly in the fleets of several small airlines and government agencies. Subscribe to the channel, comment, like! Skyships Boosty: https://boosty.to/skyships Our VK group: https://vk.com/public123681709 Channel on Yandex Zen: https://dzen.ru/id/6229f21fb2ff024222... 00:00 – Introduction 00:47 – Yak-40 01:34 – Regional airliner 02:12 – Big Yak-40 05:36 – Birth of the Yak-42 07:36 – Flight tests 10:18 – Le Bourget and a bad call 11:20 – Operation 12:38 – Beginning of troubles 13:35 – Yak-42D 14:25 – Fight for survival 17:09 – Yak-242