“Why should we cut production?” We have someone refused to buy aircraft? Such a reduction in production is not planned, ”RIA Novosti quotes Manturov's words.
He also added that the decision to suspend flights of this type of aircraft was not taken.
“The decision can be made, firstly, by the relevant department, in this case by Rosaviatsia, and there are no prerequisites for this,” said Manturov.
Earlier, Russia's Transport Minister Yevgeny Dietrich said that the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) may publish a preliminary report on the results of the investigation of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 disaster at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, during which 41 people died, within two or three months.