An engine of a Russian airline, Azur Air, has caught fire again.

Sounds like explosions, rang out in the left engine of a Boeing 767 during takeoff from an airport on a Vietnamese island Phu Quoc в Kazan last night. According to passengers, the cabin smelled of burning wiring, and flashes of fire were seen outside the windows. Afterward, the captain announced over the loudspeaker that the aircraft would not be able to continue the flight "due to technical reasons." 

Before returning to the airport, the plane circled for 50 minutes, dumping fuel. On the ground, it was met by numerous firefighters and paramedics. During the emergency landing, the plane damaged two wheels on its landing gear.

There were 336 people on board, including 42 children. Some of them held They spent the night on benches at a Vietnamese airport because a hotel wasn't available for everyone. After 11 hours, a replacement plane had still not been provided, prompting a "mini-riot" by the passengers, chanting their demands in unison.

This isn't the first time Azur Air's Boeing planes have broken down: in the last two months alone, this is at least the fourth such incident. On January 23, an emergency landed flight en route from Phuket to Barnaul. On January 28, the same plane, en route from Nha Trang to Irkutsk, sent a distress signal and made an emergency landing in Hanoi, Vietnam. On February 4, their Boeing couldn't take it away passengers from Krasnoyarsk to Phu Quoc. This week, hundreds of passengers were evacuated due to a plane breakdown. stuck at the airport in Thailand.

The flight that made an emergency landing in Vietnam last night was also delayed for several hours due to a breakdown.