2 days – minus 5 planes: serious problems with aviation began in Russia due to sanctions

In Russia, planes break down in the air due to sanctions / Collage 24 Channel

Russia has increasing problems with aviation due to sanctions imposed by the West. In just 2 days, several planes broke down in the air. Obviously, it will be increasingly difficult for Kremlin propaganda to lie about the absence of problems.

As journalists write, 5 aircraft were recently forced to make emergency landings due to malfunctions. In all cases there were no casualties or injuries, but these incidents demonstrate the effectiveness of the sanctions.

The Russians broke 5 sides in 2 days

December 2, 2023

• At about 13:11, an Aeroflot Airbus A321 flying from St. Petersburg to Moscow made an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport. The pilot made the appropriate decision due to the failure of the left engine. The landing was carried out “as normal” – there were 162 passengers on board.
• At Tyumen Roshchino airport, a Yamal Airlines Superjet 100 plane landed at an alternate airfield due to technical problems. It was heading from November to Ufa with 71 people on board, not counting the crew. Subsequently, the passengers were sent to Ufa on the airline's reserve aircraft.

December 1, 2023

• Aeroflot Airbus A321, flying from Kaliningrad to Moscow, was forced to land at St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport. On board the activation indication of the cockpit air conditioning system. The passengers were transferred to a Boeing 777 for subsequent delivery to the Russian capital.
• On the morning of the same day, another Aeroflot plane – a Boeing 737 with 408 passengers – took off from Moscow. He was forced to make an emergency landing in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk due to an indication of a drop in pressure on one of the six wheels of the landing gear.
• In Novosibirsk, the autopilot and flaps of an IrAero plane with 78 passengers on board failed after taking off from Tolmachevo airport. The Superjet 100, which was due to travel to Talakan, made more than nine circles in the holding area before landing safely. The plane had a malfunction in one of the control system channels.

Sanctions against the Russian aviation industry

After February 24, 2022, large-scale sanctions were introduced against the aviation industry of the aggressor state, closing the airspace over many countries of the world to Russian aircraft.

Among them are the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Norway, and Japan. And the sanctions included such companies as Aeroflot, S7, Volga-Dnepr, Gazprom-AVIA, Ural Airlines, Rossiya, Utair, Pobeda, Red Wings, IFly, Nord Wind, ” Yakutia”, “Yamal”, “Alrosa”.

In addition, the West has limited the Kremlin’s ability to maintain high-tech developments, in particular aircraft. This has led to a considerable number of “aviation incidents” that Moscow is trying to hide.