11 incidents involving Russian planes have occurred in December so far
In the first eight days of December, 11 incidents involving planes from Russian airlines have occurred, two of them on 8 December.
Source: Russian media outlet The Moscow Times
Details: On 8 December, at the time of writing, a Rossiya Airbus А319-111 was preparing for an emergency landing in the Russian city of Mineralnye Vody due to depressurisation of the cabin. The plane was flying from St Petersburg with 11 people on board.
This morning, a Boeing 737 (Novosibirsk-Moscow) from the airline S7 returned to the settlement of Tolmachevo due to a compressor stall of both engines.
Earlier, nine more serious incidents occurred:
- On 7 December, the engine of a Tu-204 cargo plane (Aviastar-TU, flight Ulan-Ude-Zhèngzhōu) caught fire, and the plane returned to the airport.
- On 6 December, a fire broke out on board an Aeroflot Boeing-777 flying from Moscow to Kamchatka. A passenger noticed wiring short-circuiting under his seat.
- On 5 December, the steering control system of an An-12 failed, and the plane landed at Khurba Airport in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
- On 5 December, a plane flying from Moscow to Kazan made an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport due to a stabilisation control system failure.
- On 2 December, an Aeroflot Airbus A321 (St Petersburg-Moscow) made an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo due to the failure of the left engine.
- On 2 December, a Superjet 100 plane from the Yamal airline (Noyabrsk-Ufa) landed at Roshchino Airport in the city of Tyumen due to a technical problem.
- On 1 December, an Aeroflot Airbus A321 (Kaliningrad-Moscow) landed at Pulkovo due to the activation of a notification in the cockpit air conditioning system.
- On 1 December, an Aeroflot Boeing 737 flying from Moscow made an emergency landing at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk due to the activation of the pressure drop indication system of the landing gear.
- On 1 December, the autopilot and the flaps on an IrAero plane failed in Novosibirsk.
Background: Sanctions have cut Russia off from airliner maintenance and original parts.
Since spring 2022, Russian airlines have been telling their staff not to record equipment defects in technical log books (TLBs) and continuing to fly faulty planes.
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