Airplanes Of Russia's Largest Charter Airline Have Suffered Engine Failure For The Third Time In A Month

The Boeing 767 had a left engine failure.

The Krasnoyarsk airport has delayed the flight of Azur Air, the largest Russian charter carrier, to the Vietnamese island of Phu Quoc for more than a day, the Krasnoyarsk Transport Prosecutor's Office reports. The agency is conducting an inspection. Passengers told Shot that the departure, which was supposed to take place as early as 4 a.m. on February 3, was postponed several times due to "technical problems." According to the channel, the Boeing 767's left engine failed. This is the third incident with Azur Air planes in January related to engine failures, writes The Moscow Times.

Flight ZF 2671 to Vietnam is supposed to take 335 passengers, some of whom demanded that the flight be canceled because, according to them, they became afraid to fly on the plane. The airline itself said that the flight had to be delayed "due to the long maintenance of the aircraft", complicated by low temperatures in Krasnoyarsk. At night, it was freezing to -30 degrees Celsius there. The plane's breakdown "is of a local nature," the company said, without specifying the nature of the malfunction. The plane after the repair was supposed to depart from Krasnoyarsk at 14:00 local time, but later Azur Air informed passengers that the flight will be performed on a reserve airliner, which should arrive in Krasnoyarsk from Perm on February 5 at 01:10 local time. Departure to Phu Quoc has been postponed to 02:30.

This is the third known case of engine failure on Azur Air liners this month. On January 23, a Boeing 757 from Phuket to Barnaul gave a distress signal for the same reason, after which it landed in Lanzhou, China. Then the airliner also failed one of the engines.

Last Wednesday, January 28, the same plane, flying from Nha Trang in Vietnam to Irkutsk, made an emergency landing in Hanoi. There were 238 passengers and seven crew members on board, and the cause of the accident, as Shot wrote, was again an engine failure.

Another engine failure occurred on a Boeing 747 of Rossiya Airlines on January 22. The plane was supposed to perform a Magadan-Moscow flight, but during an attempted takeoff at Magadan's Sokol airport, it suffered an engine stall. As eyewitnesses said, the plane began to veer sharply to the left, after which it rolled beyond the runway. There were 338 people on board, including nine children.

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