Russia's Federal Air Transport Company has recorded 10 incidents involving engine failures and malfunctions between 10 and 16 December.
Supply: The Moscow Instances
Particulars: Nearly half of the incidents occurred on 16 December. That day at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, a Nordwind Boeing 777 working a flight to Cuba aborted take-off after a failure of the suitable engine. Flames had been seen through the take-off roll, and an emergency warning indicating engine failure was triggered. The plane was dropped at a halt on the runway.
There have been additionally issues with a Superjet 100 operated by Rossiya Airways on a Yerevan-Sochi flight, when the crew observed elevated vibration within the second engine.
Within the metropolis of Chelyabinsk, one other Superjet 100 of the identical airline encountered points with its first engine, and the malfunction required the deactivation of the thrust reverser.
That very same night, a Ural Airways Airbus A320 en route from Khujand to Yekaterinburg was pressured to return to its departure airport due to a loud noise and a pointy improve in vibration within the first engine.
On 14 December, the suitable engine of an AZUR Air Boeing 757 arriving from Thailand failed throughout touchdown in Barnaul. The identical day, after touchdown at Tbilisi airport, the pilots of an Azimuth Superjet 100 needed to shut down the second engine because of a thrust reverser malfunction.
On 11 December, the suitable engine of a Superjet 100 operated by IrAero failed throughout climb after departure from Antalya to Sochi. The day earlier than, the crew of a Pobeda Boeing 737 reported that the left engine was not responding to adjustments in energy setting throughout a Barnaul-Moscow flight.
Background: In 2025, towards the backdrop of sanctions and the dearth of home manufacturing of spare components, the variety of incidents involving plane operated by Russian airways has elevated by roughly 4 occasions year-on-year. From January to the top of November, greater than 800 malfunctions resulting in flight cancellations or emergency returns had been recorded, in contrast with simply over 200 such incidents in the identical interval in 2024.
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