17 Nov 2013 21:46

Kazan Boeing was 23 years old - air company

KAZAN. Nov 17 (Interfax) - The Boeing airliner that crashed in Kazan on Sunday was 23 years old, the air company Tatarstan told Interfax.

The airliner has been in operation since 1990 under leasing arrangements, a company spokesman said, but he declined to name the lessor.

A source in the civil aviation sector said the air company Tatarstan acquired the plane form an Irish company in 2008. It was the seventh operator of the plane, he said.