Talk:Ilyushin Il-76

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Another excellent source of Il-76 waterbomber information,
especially if you prefer Podcasts, is the 2005 Disaster News Network
interview with Rose Davis, of the US Forest Service, and Tom Robinson,
of Global Emergency Response.

This is one of the resources in the original 'controversy' section
of Wikipedia's Il-76 section removed by a hostile party and NOT
available from its original URL now located at Quickseek.

Global Emergency Response recommends Quickseek if you want a good
selection of 'controversy' material.

Here's the DNN Susan Kim interview from 2005:

http://www.dnnradio.com/dnn/archive/19/

Newly found video of the IL-76 waterbomber here:
http://www.flightlevel350.com/Aircraft_Ilyushin_Il-76-Airline_Russian_Emergency_Minisitry_Aviation_Video-2571.html
NB: Repeats text of 'controversy' section of IL-76 somehow taken away.

YouTube: just video - no text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exXFv2uIIo0

As well, YouTube is now carrying NBC Nightly News' account of the turnaround in
US Forest Service thinking on v-large firefighting aircraft (as well as deployment
holdups) here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db7QPk7GFJM

Cheers;
John Anderson
Global Emergency Response
Calgary

206.75.13.242 02:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] US Goverment Operators

Is this a factual statement - I don't believe so, but if anybody has evidence, that would be welcome... Jkstark 05:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Maybe they refer to the US registered IL-78 tanker, N78GF, that is on a tarmac in Texas. It is supposed to be in the US doing Air to Air refueling training under a US Government contract. I wonder si the fact that a US company owns an IL-78 and that it is US registered, if the USA should not be added to the IL-76 operators map and countries? Hudicourt 14:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IL-76 Operators

Someone added Canada's Skylink as a IL-76 operator. Skylink does not own or lease IL-76s. Its pilots do not fly IL-76s. Skylink serves as a Canadian agent for other IL-76 operators. Il do not think that Skylink should be listed here. If it is, the map should be edited to add Canada to the countries that operate the IL-76.Hudicourt 14:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] KJ-200 or KJ-2000

The Article on the Shaanxi Y-8 claims that the accident on June 3 2006 in China was a KJ-200 AWACS, based on the Y-8 airframe. The IL-76 article claims the same accident was a IL-76 based KJ-2000. It cannot be both.Hudicourt 16:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

My research indicates in was the Y-8 based KJ-200 that crashed ^[1] Hudicourt 18:27, 18 March 2007 (UTC)