Posted on 12/28/2023 5:13:46 AM PST by canuck_conservative
An investigation has been launched after a Russian passenger plane landed on a frozen river near an airport in Russia's far east on Thursday...
It's not the first time a Russian plane has landed in an unusual location in recent months.
In September, a Ural Airlines Airbus 320 that was flying from the Black Sea resort of Sochi to the city of Omsk in southwestern Siberia attempted to make an emergency landing at the airport in the city of Novosibirsk, but had to land in open countryside.
Russia's aviation agency Rosaviatsia said the landing took place "on a site selected from the air" near the village of Kamenka, next to a forest in the Novosibirsk region. It added that none of the 159 people on board was injured and that the passengers were "being housed in the nearest village," Newsweek previously reported. Ural Airlines described the landing area an "improvised airport."
The plane has yet to be retrieved, and Russian authorities have since built a fence around the aircraft, images circulating on social media last month showed. Ural Airlines CEO Sergey Skuratov previously said that the plane's removal would take at least one month.
Russia's aviation industry has been hard hit by Western sanctions imposed over President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian-operated planes have been sanctioned by the U.S. government, and aircraft manufacturers have stopped delivering spare parts and new planes to the country.
This has meant that the planes have continued to fly without receiving crucial software upgrades and mandated maintenance checks required to guarantee their airworthiness, Bloomberg reported in March....
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What about travellers who land at an "improvised airport"? How do they get to their actual destination? Guess that's their problem ...
#PutinsRussia2024
Be an interesting plane removal.
they better hurry ... the river ice will be melting in a few months ...
Their luggage ends up at a different "improvised airport."
Any landing you can skate away from is a successful landing.
Zeepers trying to turn total failure into an appearance of success for the money Zelensky intends to pilfer from American taxpayers.
Doesn’t look like life is all too hunky dory in Ukraine either.
Time to end this debacle.
“Time to end this debacle.”
Kill Putin and the debacle ends today.
The MSM can really spin a narrative. Just keep reminding yourself they are liars. Makes anything they print largely worthless.
Kudos to the pilot. That couldn’t have been easy.
Glad everyone is ok.
If they can’t recover it in one piece, maybe the can carefully salvage the parts for spares.
😎👍
They’ll get some mech techs to fix the engines, whatever and then fly it out UNLOADED with a minimal crew.
...and you know that NOTHING will make the blood-thirsty Ukraine Cheerleaders happier than a planeload of dead Russian civilians.
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