Scareoflot

Kiev
About two weeks after the heroic water landing in the Hudson River by US Airways Captain Chesley Burnett “Sully” Sullenberger III was being celebrated across the American airwaves, Russia’s national airline, Aeroflot, had a story about one of its pilots make the news. This story was quite a bit different from the US Airways saga, and was a flashback to the Soviet era when we used to refer to the Russian airline as “Scareoflot.”