Another Russian Airplane With Passengers Suffered Engine Failure In Mid-air

There was smoke in one of the compartments.

Ural Airlines' Airbus A321 airplane, flying from Moscow to Sochi, made an emergency landing in Astrakhan due to an incident on board. The company reported that the crew made the decision to leave for an alternate airfield after an alarm went off, preventing the flight from continuing safely. The code 7700 means there was an emergency situation on board requiring immediate attention.

After inspecting the aircraft in Astrakhan, smoke was detected in one of the baggage compartments. Emergency services told RIA Novosti that the plane had engine problems. The airline is preparing a reserve board to send passengers to their destination. This is at least the eighth such incident involving Russian airlines' planes in a month.

August 2, the crew of Aeroflot's Airbus A321neo on a Sochi-Moscow flight reported the failure of the yellow hydraulic system of the second engine and front strut control, requesting an emergency landing and a tractor pull. An alert was issued and Code Blue was issued, signifying that an aviation event had occurred in flight. The plane eventually landed at Sheremetyevo.

July 27 code 7700 due to a right engine failure was transmitted by the crew of an Embraer 190 Icarus Airlines plane with 106 passengers on board, traveling from Izhevsk to Makhachkala. The aircraft commander decided to proceed to Uytash destination airport. On July 20, the engine generator of a Moscow-Dushanbe UTair plane failed, forcing the aircraft to return to Vnukovo. Two days earlier, a similar incident occurred with an Airbus A320 of S7 Airlines on a flight from Moscow to Chita. The crew continued the flight to the destination airport.

July 11, the crew of a Boeing 757-200 Aviastar-Tu aircraft traveling from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk reported an engine failure after takeoff and eventually returned to Vnukovo after two hours of fuel depletion in the waiting area. An alert was issued and a Code Blue was issued. In a similar situation was Boeing-752 of the same airline a day earlier, which was flying from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk. At the same time, due to problems with the left engine, a Boeing 737 of Rossiya Airlines, flying from the capital to Kaliningrad, returned to the departure airfield.

International aviation sanctions against Russia, which followed the invasion of Ukraine, led to a significant deterioration in the technical condition of the fleet of Russian carriers. In the first 11 months of 2024 alone, 208 aviation incidents occurred - a quarter more than in 2023, Novaya Gazeta Europe calculated.

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