The Third Russian Airline Plane In A Day Suffered An In-flight Malfunction

The Boeing 757 was flying from Phuket to Barnaul.

Azur Air's Boeing 757 airplane flying from Phuket to Barnaul has given a distress signal and is preparing for an emergency landing in China, a representative of the carrier told RIA Novosti. "It will make a landing in Lanzhou," the agency's interlocutor specified. The plane left Thailand about four hours ago and it still has a considerable distance to travel to the Russian border. There are 238 passengers on board. There is no data on what malfunction required an emergency landing.

This is the third Russian airplane in a day that has encountered a breakdown while making a flight. On the morning of January 23, a Boeing 737 on a flight from Kaliningrad to Moscow made an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo airport due to problems with a landing gear strut. None of the passengers were injured. Specialists began a technical inspection of the aircraft, which was suspended from flying for the duration of the inspection.

On the night of January 23, a Boeing 737-800 of Yakutia Airlines flying from Novosibirsk made an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk airport. According to the carrier, the aircraft requested an emergency landing because the cabin began to lose pressure. Preliminarily, it happened due to icing of the valve of the aircraft's supercharging system. Of the 158 passengers who were on board, no one was injured.

According to a calculation by Novaya Gazeta Europa based on data from the Aviaincident channel, the number of incidents involving Russian airlines' planes has quadrupled in 2025 compared to 2024. Between January and the end of November, more than 800 cases of malfunctions leading to flight cancelation or interruption were recorded. The increase in the number of such incidents is directly related to Western sanctions imposed on Russia after Vladimir Putin unleashed war in Ukraine.

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