This Massive 860-Passenger Plane Never Got Off Ground

It was supposed to transport up to 860 people at a time across the world, but fell into oblivion, due to the economic crisis of the 1990s.
In the 1990s, Russia could have had the largest passenger plane in the world - the KR-860 ‘Wings of Russia’. 
It was the creation of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, which, at the time, was thinking of producing an economically successful plane for civilian air transport. According to their estimations, in the 21st century, passenger traffic would grow by 9-12% annually. Because of this, the market would need double-deck aircraft to carry large numbers of people at once. 
“Bureaus all over the world were working on such a double-deck aircraft. Americans created the Boeing-747 series and Europeans developed the giant Airbus A380. In the late 1990s, Sukhoi followed the trends and did not want to miss the new niche of double-deck aircraft for passenger transportation,” says Alexei Vlasov, an expert in flight safety.
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