Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency has recorded 10 incidents involving engine failures and malfunctions between 10 and 16 December.

Source: The Moscow Times

Details: Almost half of the incidents occurred on 16 December. That day at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, a Nordwind Boeing 777 operating a flight to Cuba aborted take-off after a failure of the right engine. Flames were seen during the take-off roll, and an emergency warning indicating engine failure was triggered. The aircraft was brought to a halt on the runway.

There were also problems with a Superjet 100 operated by Rossiya Airlines on a Yerevan-Sochi flight, when the crew noticed increased vibration in the second engine.

In the city of Chelyabinsk, another Superjet 100 of the same airline encountered issues with its first engine, and the malfunction required the deactivation of the thrust reverser.

That same evening, a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 en route from Khujand to Yekaterinburg was forced to return to its departure airport because of a loud noise and a sharp increase in vibration in the first engine.

On 14 December, the right engine of an AZUR Air Boeing 757 arriving from Thailand failed during landing in Barnaul. The same day, after landing at Tbilisi airport, the pilots of an Azimuth Superjet 100 had to shut down the second engine due to a thrust reverser malfunction.

On 11 December, the right engine of a Superjet 100 operated by IrAero failed during climb after departure from Antalya to Sochi. The day before, the crew of a Pobeda Boeing 737 reported that the left engine was not responding to changes in power setting during a Barnaul-Moscow flight.

Background: In 2025, against the backdrop of sanctions and the lack of domestic production of spare parts, the number of incidents involving aircraft operated by Russian airlines has increased by roughly four times year-on-year. From January to the end of November, more than 800 malfunctions leading to flight cancellations or emergency returns were recorded, compared with just over 200 such incidents in the same period in 2024.

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