31.   The Antonov aircraft company on Tuesday signed an agreement with a Russian aviation plant for construction of a new model of passenger jet, officials said.

32.   The crash is the latest in a string of accidents that has plagued Russian aviation in recent years.

33.   The Russian aviation committee has said planes often are overloaded to make extra money.

34.   The U.S. Boeing aircraft manufacturing company on Tuesday signed cooperation agreements with three Russian aviation companies, a Boeing official said.

35.   He added that Russian aviation interest in South Korea had been heightened after Seoul this year lost out on a joint Chinese passenger plane deal.

36.   Russian aviation experts left Moscow on Wednesday for Turin to assist in the investigation.

37.   Russian civil aviation has gained a poor reputation in the last few years with a high rate of crashes and poor maintenance of an ageing fleet.