Two accidents with civil aircraft occur in Russia in one day

Two planes of the Russian Aeroflot air company have made an emergency landing due to technical malfunctions in one day.

Source: Russian media

Details: On 1 December in the morning a warning about a drop in pressure in one of the six chassis wheels was activated in a Boeing flying from Moscow to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. It occurred before the landing in the destination airport.

"The crew has conducted all the procedures required in this case in accordance with the flight performance regulations, for instance, informed ground airport services," Aeroflot told the Russian Interfax agency.

As a result the pilots had to land the plane. 408 passengers and 14 crew members were on board the plane.

The second incident occurred on 1 December with a plane flying from Kaliningrad to Moscow which had to request an emergency landing in the Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg.

"During the flight the ground services were informed about technical malfunction of the aircraft. The emergency team was on full alert," a source told Interfax.

Aeroflot explained that the landing was carried out because the indicator of the equipment cooling system was activated in the cockpit.

"With the goal of ensuring flight safety and in accordance with flight performance regulations, the commander of the air vessel decided to conduct an emergency landing in the nearest airport," the air company stated.

182 passengers were on board the plane.

Background:

• In November it was revealed that Ukrainian intelligence managed to seize Russian documentation on civilian aviation for the period of almost a year and a half. The received information shows that Russian civil aviation is on the brink of collapsing.
• In January 2023 alone, 185 air accidents were reported in Russia. Nearly 1/3 of them were qualified as emergencies of different levels of danger.
• On 2 October three incidents with civil planes occurred in Russia on the same day.

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