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Tupolev 154, Russian flagged.

With the USA B-727 and L-1011 aircraft designs, the Russians just had to have one of their own ducted-fan airliners as well.
Have to say that the Russians built a more beautiful Tri-Jet with the T-154, although the USA appears to have provided it first and with more varieties and capabilities.
Superb photograph of the beautiful T-154! Thank you!!!!
Can we get this reposted with its aircraft # to see where and how often it flies?

This one didn’t do so well:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Russian_Defence_Ministry_Tupolev_Tu-154_crash