“At Baikal Airport, the engine of the Tu-204 cargo plane of the Aviastar-TU airline company caught fire. The plane landed. There were no injured people,” reported Oleksijus Cydenovas.
The plane was supposed to fly from Ulan Ude to Zhangzhou (China). However, a few minutes after takeoff, the Tu-204’s left engine caught fire.
The pilots reported this to the airport, then drained the fuel and began the descent.
All airport services were reportedly put on alert, but the plane eventually landed successfully.
In Russia, following its invasion of Ukraine and the introduction of international sanctions against the Russian Federation, there has been an increase in emergency and emergency situations involving aircraft, especially civilian ones. December 1 An Aeroflot Boeing-777 flying from Moscow made an emergency landing in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk due to an undercarriage failure.
Russia has received a “red flag” from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for flight safety. Only four countries in the world have the “Red Flag”: Bhutan, Congo, Liberia and Russia. This assessment indicates serious processes of deterioration of Russian aviation safety.
About 70% of the civil aircraft fleet of the Russian Federation consists of aircraft from foreign countries, which serve 95% of air transport. In just one year, Russia’s air fleet has shrunk from nearly 900 aircraft in 2022. initially to less than 800 aircraft. The industry is shrinking due to the loss of western aircraft. Russia has only about 150 passenger aircraft of its own production, but there are many problems in this segment as well.
Airlines are faced with the choice of scrapping planes for parts or using non-genuine spare parts at the risk of safety. Lack of insurance and problems with spare parts make it difficult to operate the planes.
The problem has become so acute that the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation has allowed foreign aircraft to be repaired in any way, even using non-original parts. At least 50 planes of the largest carrier, Aeroflot, which make up 25% of the airline’s fleet, are unable to continue flying due to a lack of spare parts.
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2024-08-18 16:50:00
