Sparks and crackling: an engine caught fire on a plane flying from Novosibirsk to Moscow. This is the 10th aircraft breakdown this week.
An S7 Airlines Boeing 737 made an emergency return to its departure airport, TASS reports. The aircraft has been grounded.
“The cause [of the fire] was engine surge—a violation of gas-dynamic stability with micro-explosions,” — the press service of the Eastern Interregional Investigative Directorate for Transport of the Investigative Committee of Russia clarifies.
It is known that 176 people were on board. All of them are currently being accommodated in the airport building. A preliminary investigation has already been launched into a criminal investigation into violations of air transport regulations.
This fire marks the tenth aircraft breakdown in the past week, according to The Moscow Times. Sanctions, which have cut off Russia from aircraft maintenance and original spare parts, are to blame.
The day before, the engine of a Tu-204 cargo plane caught fire while it was flying from Ulan-Ude в ZhangzhuoThe cause is also engine surge. Due to a short circuit, an Aeroflot Boeing 777 flying on flight Moscow-Kamchatka, 6 December was suspended from flying.
5 December The An-12's rudder control system failed and it landed at the airport. Kosmomolsk-on-Amur, and the plane Moscow - Kazan made an emergency landing in SheremetyevoHis stabilization system control failed.
2 December Aeroflot Airbus A321 (St. Petersburg - Moscow) requested an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo due to the failure of the left engine, and the company's Superjet 100, which was flying from, landed at Tyumen's Roshchino airport due to a technical issue. Noyabrsk в Ufa.
1 December Three aircraft failed at once: an Aeroflot Airbus A321 and Boeing 737, as well as an IrAero flight.
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