The Yak-42 is a regional jet airliner created in the USSR in the late 1970s. The aircraft was created in the Yakovlev Design Bureau based on the layout of the successful Yak-40.
Possessing a high level of efficiency, comfort and acceptable flight performance, the Yak-42 was supposed to renew the fleet of regional aircraft, replacing the Il-18 and Tu-134. However, a series of aviation incidents and disasters delayed its entry into the niche of mass air travel. Further modernization again made it a successful airliner, but by the beginning of the 1990s, the collapse of the USSR and the fall of the air transportation market followed, which flattened demand. Thus, a perfectly effective regional airliner could not take its place under the Sun and, failing to replace the old Soviet aircraft, gave way to the new Russian SSJ 100.
A total of 187 airliners were produced. Production is now discontinued. A small number of aircraft still fly in the fleets of several smaller airlines and government departments.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:40 - Yak-40
01:26 - Regional airliner
02:07 - The big Yak-40
02:23 - The Yak-42
07:30 - Flight tests
10:18 - Paris Air Show and the bad sigh
11:15 - Operation
12:24 - Beginning of troubles
13:37 - Yak-42D
14:31 - Fight for survival
17:22 - Yak-242
This is one of my favourite planes from Russia, a few years ago I had the chance to fly on one as part of a special tour, it was operated by a small private company, the crew were amazing, allowing us avgeeks to look at every aspect of the jet, sadly I’m not sure when I will get the opportunity to visit Russia again, for reasons I don’t need to explain, but hopefully I will get the chance to visit some of the amazing aviation museums that are in Russia. Thank you for a wonderful channel
Yeah, Great time to be celebrating all things Russians.
I love Russia and don't have a problem loving it while it's engaged in war. America killed over a million children across Iraq, Afganistan and Syria. Russia don't even come close.
@@shakiMiki really ??? It’s a documentary about a Soviet jet made by a Russian KZheadr whom I admire, get a grip
@@dpairlines1480lol, some people prefer a black and white world, it's easier, you don't need to think, everything other is bad by default.
@@shakiMikiAm I a bad person if I Watch Messi the Puma?
Back in 2013, I flew on a Cubana Yak-42 from Cancun to Havana. The flight was short and uneventful but I enjoyed the experience. When we returned to Cancun we flew on a Tu-204, which reminded me of a 757.
Indonesian low cost airline, Lion Air, famous for being the launch customer of Boeing 737-900ER, and one of its subsidiaries also become the first to fly 737MAX (Malindo Air - now Batik Air Malaysia). They also operated 5 x Yak-42Ds for about a year, from 2001 to 2002. What makes the plane rather obsolete is the noise, among local Indonesian plane spotters, the Yak-42Ds are known as "trumpet plane" as they make a distinctive turbine whine noise. The plane was used to fly many major Lion Air routes at the time (e.g. to Kupang, Singapore, or even Surabaya), complementing its fleet of Boeing 737-200 and Airbus A310-300, before post-9/11 give them a chance to hoard more than a dozen of extra MD-80s from major US carriers at cheap leasing rate. When the MD-80s arrived, the Yak-42D's tenure simply ended. The little Soviet regional jet briefly helped bridge and transition the airline to become Indonesia's largest airline and Boeing's 2nd largest customer (the entire group) after Southwest Airlines and also ATR's largest operator.
I saw the plane once, and indeed it was cery noisy
Tu-134 is the actually noise plane. The right sound of soviet turbine!
Sad because it is in my opinion one of the most beautiful regional jet of its time
Love your coverage Soviet and Russian aircraft.
I appreciate your hard work to make these videos. So interesting and informative.
Dear Sky, great channel, just discovered you and working through 'Back catalogue'. You produce good and interesting videos indeed and I am happy to congratulate you. More on Russian/soviet aerospace will be welcome, it is hard to find much at all in English. Thank you.
The Yak42/D was never my favorite, I flew it here in Cuba, back in the nineties; were nice rides... My biggest concern were about the lack of speed and some problems with the pressurization system. However was not a bad aircraft for a country like the mine... As many other Soviet aircraft, the Yak42 fleet (around 15) did the job in the island for many years (20+), where the only accident was due to the crew bad performance approaching Valencia, Venezuela... Again, thank you for this new material friends of Sky; you do are my favorites! :)
They were loud!!
@@OOpSjmless loud then turbo prop plane 😉 😂 joke a side yak40 for it time was great small regional airlines bringing people to small regional airport
Thank you for another entertaining informative video. You have a great channel. Here in my hometown, Wichita, Kansas. The Beechcraft Co. just launched a new single engine aircraft called the Denali. It is a turboprop powered aircraft with seating for 10 - 12 passengers.
Does it have a GMC interior , LoL? ....
Building the aircraft like this means jobs for my hometown.
I just looked this thing up, when are Pilatus suing for copyright infringement? Looks so much like a PC-12.
You are right. It does look a lot like the PC-12, @@jimbee7342
...and cost $6,000,000!😁
Great video as always - I've always loved tri-jets and this one is a beauty!
man your videos are getting better and better, keep it flying in!
Such a good looking bird, so well proportioned, flowing lines, easy on the eyes. Always loved it.
I think the main issue was plane design bureau wasn’t in sync with engine design bureau like it is in the West. The original plan was for a jet with either 2 outdated engines or 3 too heavy engines. The entire project either should have new engines designed for it or not start at all
...and right about then they discovered that 2 engined airliners were more fuel efficient than 3 engined airliners.
I remember flying in one back in 1998 I was a teenager and it was actually my first time flying alone in a Jet.! We had to get in from the planes behind… literally the rear door of the plane retracted and has a built in stairway. No need for a Tunnel or a stair. When it reached cruising altitude the cabin filled with what I thought was smoke and I freaked out but the pilot announced that it was mist from the Airconditioning. It was an uneventful flight otherwise. And the leg space in economy was way better than todays jets.
A favorite channel of mine, thanks for your work and best wishes!
Hey man, I appreciate these videos that go beyond Wiki reading. Also, your English is so much better than a few years ago and you're getting the harder syntax of native speakers way more often.
I'm glad that you finally added proper subtitles comrade, I hope more viewers come to your channel!
Been watching your channel for a while now , very interesting , explanations simple and good production.
I'm glad you like the channel
@@SkyshipsEng im glad i found your channel in the first place
A good looking aircraft; in fact, I think the tri-engine layout is the most graceful jetliner arrangement. The tri-engine concept just didn't have longevity anywhere in the world. The plane I'm most familiar with, the Boeing 727 was hamstrung because the design could not accommodate the new, economical turbofans which were also larger than the jets it was designed around.
Also, with more powerful and reliable engines around, there was no need for a third engine any longer. The DC9- variants were much longer in service than the 727 because of this. Also, the need for a flight engineer didn't help. The 9ers got rid of the third man right from the start.
which one? is this an airliner from 70s so 50 years ago?
Good timing. The Russian company, Irkut, that bought Yakovlev in 2004 just changed its name back to Yakovlev.
I'm glad I'm still subscribed to your channel; been waiting for a video about this plane
Thank you for your work! For us it would take several hours of research and reading to get these informations. But you just make it like an interesting story in a 18min video! Great video!
I think I flew on one in about 1995 from an oilfield location to Tomsk. It was interesting!
I'm glad I watched this. I thought I knew what the Yak-42 was. Great video.
That was a nice video, thank you. Soviet-era airliners and the stories behind them make for some fascinating reading/watching. Sad to hear about another three-engine airliner going by the wayside, but such is the world of aviation.
You making your clips / videos lots more interesting and it is beautiful thank you
Another great video my friend! I really enjoy your videos
Another Excellent Video !!!
Great video. I had no idea it was tested with both a straight and swept wing. Thank you😊
Wonderful channel. Thank you
Nice! 🙂 I flew three times with one on Cubana Nassau - Havanna - Nassau, one time not by choice as a passenger collapsed and we returned to Havanna before taking off again to Nassau.
Love them guys in the clip at 1min20 that had to duck down for the wing haha The yak42 is certainly a very compact well proportioned aircraft slightly smaller than your 737 and a320 aircraft
Always interesting.
Ashamed to say I never heard of this aircraft before!! Seems to be in a similar category to the BAC 1-11. Sadly once you get beyond a certain size, a tough,regional jet becomes very niche I think
As a Yank, my comparison is the Boeing 727.
@@petesheppard1709 yep that works too
I saw a Cubana Yak-42 in Cancún in the 1990s. I was hoping to fly on one, but never got the chance.
Very interesting!
Good to see a new video Sky
Thank you for the video.
Love seeing all the footage from my home airport PDX 😁
one of my favourites.. the yak-40. its a shame they didnt update the yak-40 ever in its lifetime. money could have been better spent on yak-40 upgrades & tu-134 upgrades. still though soviet planning. no one can argue with that. another top quality video production !
I loved to fly on this Yak-42 and IL with 4 engine wide body from Karachi to Lahore route in Pakistan in early 1990s. I really liked the flight, crew and serving etc.
The Yak 40. A legend in your own mind.
When i started a job with a lots of business trips all around Russia, those birds were still in use. Aaaaand i was really glad that they were rare. In fact i flown on Tu-134 more times than on Yak-42 and from the point of passenger comfort, Tu-134 were way more comfortable than Yaks.
Do you mind describing the differences in passenger comfort between the Tu-134 and Yak-42? I’m very curious about this.
@@samy7013 tu-134 was narrower with 2+2 seats and a big round windows, yak is 3+3 but it is 10cm narrower than for example a320 so it felt more overcrowded. For me the bigest difference was in quality on interior components. My last busines trip on tus and yaks way in 2000s, while tu's interior holder pretty well, yaks had seats thaw would not recline or recline kn their own, signs that was made more crudely and so on.
How come the men standing near the Yak-40 in the start of the video not wearing some kind of ear protection?
I like this style of narration. It sounds to my English ears as if it is being translated directly from Russian. It's a different psychology.
I flew on one, it was very comfortable.
The only soviet plane that I flew in the end of the 80s, and it was my first ever plane ride.
I believe there's a yak 40 on display in the aviation museum of Tartu, Estonia. Not completely sure though.
Well that's a shame things didn't turn out like they wanted it to. It wasn't a bad looking plane. Nice and simple straightforward.
I follow the channel in spanish. Love your videos. Could you make a video about military aerial refueling tanker aircrafts? Thank you so much. Greetings from Spain.
With five percent of the aircraft built being involved in fatal accidents I’m not sure I’d ever feel safe on a YAK-42☹️!
Most of them Human error like the locomotiv disaster or in Turkey with Spanish soldiers returning from Afghanistan
A few days ago, Russia announced that the MC will be officially re-named YAK
Good morning from Toronto ❤
Good morning!
Always love your great work and russian sorviet aircrafts
Apparently, 42 wasn’t the answer to everything.
Can you make a video about the propfan I think it is a very interesting topic to talk about please.
And also I love soviet planes even my favorite plane is a soviet plane and also ther is a plane that use propfan that is the AN-70
there is still a Yak-42 in good condition being displayed in the VDNKh/ VDNH, Park in Moscow, visitors can even going inside of the plane
I worked for an airline that leased the YAK 42 D for a short period in Iran. It was very underpower and didn't like any temperature above 24 C. Made to fly in Russia only !!!
Yak 42 was flying many years in Cuba with flights to Cancun ( Mexico), Nassau ( Havana) and there are all days temperature above 24 C..
The 99% of development are realistically achievable, but that final ONE Percent, the tiny bit which prevents aircraft from falling from the sky….well….thank you for shining the spotlight on Soviet domestic airliners. The aircraft known as the Yak 20, AND Yak 40, thank you also.
I think there is a joke that airplanes are 100,000 parts flying in formation and 99% of the time they agree on the same destination.
I flew in a Yak 40 in Kasachstan. It is called there the bus of the airs.
Mr Sky my respect 4 u amigo iam from Colombia and know for the fact that people in the state they make fun of everibody accent you have a heavy accent but you go ahead to make it bettter have a very good knowlege on the planes history congrats i dont miss your videos amigo
Very interesting! Poor old Yak42! 🛩 💙 🛩
Looks very much like the successful Hawker Trident.
East Germany in the 60’s seems preferable to the USA today.
I thought you said yak 42... Then i heard stabilizer problem and grounded for 2 years... Then it's Booing you are talking about right? 737 Maxi pad.
Best airplane channek
The aeroplane failed due to heavyweight. Instead of two three engines were installed further the over seating capacity resulted in a failure.
The Yak-42D is a nice looking aircraft that could have been successful hadn't it have some design flaws which could have been fixed like the boeing 737 which is known for its high rate of accidents since it was put into production..
Good afternoon from the Wild Atlantic Way
And good afternoon!
Make a video on ussar 's naval awacs aircraft
3:33 or "Soot sling" in Czechoslovakia.
That footage near the start of the Yak-40 Taking off - sums up Russian Piloting skills and ability. 10ft right of centerline and taking off without crosswind correction LMAO.
Yak 42 is a very slow aircraft as has been seen when yak42 took off much before 737 and destinations were the same and 737 arrived much earlier
I'm really curious about the status of projects such as MS21 following international sanctions.
You went from talking about a crash, caused by a design error and a stabiliser mechanism failure and went straight to solving the chronic problem of short range? You should have talked about how the stabiliser problem was resolved and how grounded planes where released. The issue of short range was only resolved, I am sure, after the stabilizer problem was resolved. I have included a link to the full story of the failure in design. YAK-42 remains my absolute best Soviet era plane. As a matter of fact, it remains my absolute best looking commercial plane, along with Lockheed Tristar, till date. See link below for details about the tragic crash. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_8641
15:52- RIP Karlis Skrastins.
You forgot "Also" in the headline...
I flew on a Tu-134, but never a Yak-42. Too bad.
If you aren't Boeing, don't try to build a 727.
They built the Tu-154 which was successful and was more comparable to the 727.
@@wanderschlosser1857 true. I'm just joking of course, but the fact that Soviet/Russian airliners look like Western airliners has more to do with the limited number of best configurations for airliners. The American and Soviet Space Shuttles look almost exactly the same, yet the Soviet Shuttle was a completely independent design. If you want to make a space shuttle that side, that is how it will always look.
Cannot forget the FC lokomotiv disaster
If history has told one thing never get in a Russian I was travelled in a YAK airliner I was shocked how badly made it was not even the seat belts worked.
It was soooooo loud you will not believe it…
Star Yak Ranch.
15:20 What the heck is that thing?
Too bad they couldn't have just used the DC-9.
Soviet era airframes were always a curiosity in the west. Its final design was more functional (unimproved runways little ground support ) then flash. But the biggest baine of all past and current Soviet/Russian/UKRAINE airframes were those absolutely rotten engines. Over sized underpowered gas guzzling maintenance queens!
17:30 DC-10ski
ထိန်းချုပ်ပိုလွယ်ကူအောင်ဦးခေါင်းကို ball type joint and emergency wings 😊တွေပါတပ်သင့်တယ်
Have you ever been in a soviet-era jet. You literally get bare minimum.
I really cannot understand the USSR: even when it had a good product it couldn't use it nationally or sell it abroad. WTF ?
Sky…✈️👍🏻( the Yak-42 would have worked in the US!
Had they fixed the Yak-42 problems earlier, it's likely the plane would have been common sights even in Western Europe, operated by eastern European airlines flying to western Europe.
Yakovlev trying to not create some of the Best russian Planes:
The problem is that Russia does not partner with its allies to develop and obtain funding
Don't try to understand a socialist economy in capitalist terms; there is a lot there that is irrational from a capitalist point of view. For example, the Soviet Union did not own a single enterprise or company operating abroad that profited from workers from other countries; from the Soviet point of view, this was ideologically unacceptable, which is why modern Russia could not retain its allies that the USSR had. Capitalist and socialist economies are fundamentally different, they have different goals and, because of this, different products that cannot effectively exist and be produced in the opposite system. That is why most Soviet products in the capitalist world turned out to be unclaimed, because they were originally created for other conditions in the outside world.
They had bad reputation of making "unscheduled descents into ground terrain" I last flew on example by Південна "South" airline in Ukraine in 2008, it was quite contrast to flying Boeing 737. Windows whistled from pressure leak, tray tables like guillotine etc. By that time many Yak-40 and Yak-42 made to fly executive duties for apparatchikii.
Time for the American taxpayers to stop funding corrupt ukraine, Not Our War.
Just sell the plane with strait wings and a broom.
*Hey man, how about F-104 Starafighter? Best looking american jet fighter.*
it's an ugly death trap with two disgusting stubby wings. You think it's more attractive than the F-14 or the F-15? well ooookaaaayyy....
@@JohnnyWednesday well, like this. just a f-14 bent like a stamped part, and the f-15 has stupid square air intakes, as if it were a MiG-25 kit. Yes, I think the Starfighter is prettier. It has the perfect shape of a cruise missile. engine, fuel tank and cockpit with pilot. Wings are needed only for maneuvers, because it flies thanks to the thrust of the engine. Aerodynamics is only for those idiots who do not know how to build powerful engines.
I'm still surprised that commercial aviation was all that important in a communized economy. And didn't Russia have a lot of trains anyway?
By Western standards in "the most wonderful country a man of labour could dream about" people just simply didn't have cars. If in the US of A in 1985 there were 535 cars per 1000 citizens, in the USSR the numbers were 45/1000. So, commies tried to compensate for that with public transportation, trains and planes including. And very often they sucked at it.
The russia is ENORMOUS
0:40 Who taught that guy how to fly? Also, who painted that runway?
russian "special civilization" on display
Revival of these jets became necessity for russian aviation as western countries inposed bans on russia including the ban on aircrafts maintenance and also purchase of new aircrafts !!!
Bullcrap! Russia are completely to blame for the lack of maintenance and parts. And they are also guilty of the theft of hundreds of aircraft. Shame on the current Russian leadership.