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A series of harrowing air safety incidents has forced numerous emergency landings of airliners across Russia, leaving passengers screaming — in anger or fear.
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I’m really glad I’m not on their raggedy planes. Skipping failed safety certs and flying with broken components in the name of an pointless war is going to get passengers killed.
Yeah it would really suck to have a door blown out or a cracked cockpit glass.
The door is inexcusable, but cracked glass happens frequently to many airlines. The pane that cracked is the outer pane and usually occurs from frequent heating and cooling.
The recent door issue seems to be a result of improper installation by Boeing. The bolts were not torqued to the correct torque or the torque speck given at assembly was incorrect. Anywho, most aviation governing bodies require all planes operating in their region to have completed all manufacturer safety inspections and repairs. If Russia isn’t doing this with their fleets their plans may not be allowed to land/take off in many countries.
In that article, the big ones were both engines failing simultaneously and the landing gear not deploying xD
The new aviation guessing game: Boeing and/or Aeroflot…
On Dec. 11, a Utair flight made an emergency landing because of a wing flap failure while carrying 104 passengers and 42 pounds of a radioactive substance, Russian media reported. A Utair plane flying from Moscow to Kogalym in the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia signaled an emergency because of engine failure on Dec. 29.
TIL Russia uses commercial flights to transport radioactive materials.
You get irradiated every time you fly anyways, why not go all in.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
MOSCOW — Over the first eight days of December, civilian Russian airplanes experienced at least eight serious mechanical failures, terrifying many passengers as pilots were forced to make emergency landings in cities across the country.
The pilots made an emergency landing, Russian Telegram channels reported, and video from inside the cabin showed passengers screaming and crying as oxygen masks deployed from the ceiling.
“Logistic chains are available to domestic airlines, thanks to which they receive the required spare parts and components for the normal operation of aircraft,” Mikhail Vasilenkovf the Federal Air Transport Agency said in a December statement.
But in a December opinion article in Kommersant, a leading newspaper, Oleg Panteleyev, director of Aviaport, a Russian aviation think tank, said the risks had “increased exponentially,” adding that there had been a sharp reduction in technical inspections.
But in November, Russian airline Pobeda had its developer certificate suspended because of serious violations in modifications to three Boeings, including alterations to the traffic collision avoidance system, according to pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper.
A Superjet flight from Vladivostok to Chita in October was a prime case: On takeoff, passengers felt a thud, and the plane had to circle, burn fuel and make an emergency landing because of a problem with the left engine.
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