Another Russian Plane Broke Down In Mid-air

• 28.11.2025, 17:43

There could have been a fuel leak.

An Aeroflot plane flying Irkutsk-Moscow was forced to land in Perm's Bolshoye Savino airport, the airline's press service said. The flight was SU-1563, carrying 158 passengers. According to the carrier, the commander decided on an unscheduled landing due to the indication of increased fuel consumption, which could indicate a possible leak. The landing went smoothly at 15:32 Minsk time, and a reserve plane was sent from Moscow to Perm, which should fly back to the capital at 20:30 local time, writes The Moscow Times.

In January, a similar incident occurred with the flight SU 2131, traveling from Istanbul to Moscow: the plane emergency landed in Astrakhan due to a technical malfunction. In April, another airline plane broke down: an aircraft flying on the Moscow-Denpasar route requested an emergency landing in Sheremetyevo after an engine failure, 112 wrote.

Before that, on March 29, Aeroflot's Airbus A320 made an emergency landing at Saratov's Gagarin airport after a system that signaled possible depressurization went off. On February 10, a Boeing of the same airline, flying from Phuket (Thailand) to Moscow, was forced to return to Bangkok after several hours of flight - Thai PBS reported that the cause was a landing gear system malfunction.

After Vladimir Putin's launch of the war in Ukraine and the ensuing US and EU sanctions, the technical condition of the Russian aircraft fleet deteriorated markedly. "Novaya Gazeta Europe" wrote that in the first 11 months of 2024, Russia recorded 208 aircraft incidents - 25 percent more than a year earlier, with almost half of the cases involving engine failures or landing gear malfunctions.