Critics Have Also Said Something About The Ilyushin Il-62
The Yak-42 wasn’t the only jet mentioned in the aforementioned Jalopnik article. Other readers, including one who wrote about the Ilyushin Il-62, weighed in on their own awful airline experiences. That person wrote, “It still uses manual flight controls, no power support to operate those flight control surfaces.”
More was spoken by that guy, who stated that more components of the plane were dependent on manual effort — literally. “If ice gets stuck in a hinge, it’ll only take your strength to break it out,” they noted. “It also has a history of bursting engines and faulty thrust reversers that have caused damage to nearby engines.”