Air India plane from New Delhi to San Francisco lands in Russia after engine problem - CNA

[TexasTowelie]

Air India has sent a replacement aircraft with food and essentials for passengers stranded in the far east of Russia, after a flight from New Delhi to San Francisco was forced to make an emergency landing due to an engine malfunction. 216 passengers and 16 crew were on board the Boeing 777. According to Indian media reports, many US citizens on board were worried about landing in Russia, given tensions between Moscow and Washington. Russia has banned airlines from numerous Western countries from operating in its airspace.

[VMA131Marine]

1. Air India is not getting that aircraft back.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Yes, of course it is! Why wouldn't it??

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/moscow-says-air-india-reserve-plane-land-russia-early-wednesday-2023-06-07/

A source at the Magadan airport told Reuters that Air India engineers would arrive on the reserve plane with spare parts.

[VMA131Marine]

7. Russia is under sanctions

Most aircraft parts cannot be exported to Russia. An exception would have to be made.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. So it has.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. An engine will be shipped and installed and an emergency situation that has zero to do with politics

will be resolved with no fucks given to politics.

The airport appears modern and well used.

[Wonder Why]

3. This kind of problem should be easy to stop:

No planes with a flight plan that includes flying over Russia should be allowed to come to US Airports

Any Airline doing this should be banned from US airports

American citizens who fly on airlines that are banned from U.S. airports are told they are on their own if they run into this type of problem.

The fact is that some airlines (no U.S. ones as they are all complaining about it) do this because the flight path makes for lower costs and so they are undercutting airlines that will not or are banned from flying over Russia. Russia collects a fee for the overflights.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. Not using the polar route, used thousands of times a day...would double the fare.

Not everyone is at war with Russia, only one.

[Wonder Why]

11. Russia banned overflights by Western countries' airlines. Mome airlines consider

flying over Russia a security risk! Duh!


"Russia has barred U.S. airlines and other foreign carriers from flying over its airspace, in retaliation for Washington banning Russian flights over the U.S. in March 2022 after the country invaded Ukraine."
[link:https://www.reuters.com/world/chinese-airlines-avoiding-russian-airspace-new-us-flights-2023-06-01/|]

"United Airlines Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby said flying over Russia constitutes a risk that many carriers including his own won’t take, while airlines from China or India enjoy a competitive advantage as they continue to traverse the airspace."
[link:https://fortune.com/2023/06/05/ceo-united-airlines-russian-airspace-security-risk/|]

[Alexander Of Assyria]

12. The countries not supplying billions in weapons get usual consideration, others, not...that's not

anything revealing to anyone.

Back to the topic of the thread..and my response being…everyone on the plane will be ok and it will be returned…no problem…guess I was right!

[Bev54]

4. I would not want to be an American on that plane.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

9. Nothing happened to them other than some bad food and sleep.

[Bev54]

10. Thankfully, I remember that couple being pulled off the plane when it was directed to

unscheduled landing in Belarus and Navalny being taken off a plane after it was re-directed. I just don't trust Russia and not sure I would want to be on a plane anywhere near their airspace. Thankfully nothing happened, thanks for letting me know. Too much news to catch up on.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

13. The rank speculation, bordering on hope, that a remote airport would treat humans inhumanely

was not a human response.

Russian People…are not evil…about as much as American People I would speculate.

[Wonder Why]

14. No, the danger that someone they don't like gets "detained". Remember

AP: "A court in Belarus convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested after being pulled off a commercial flight that was diverted to the country and sentenced him Wednesday to eight years in prison.

Raman Pratasevich’s dramatic arrest in May 2021 elicited outrage in the West, with some leaders saying the plane’s diversion was tantamount to state-sponsored hijacking."

It's not how the Russian people would treat passengers. It's about the Russian government.

And remember MH17.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

16. Apples and oranges comparison, sadly.

[dembotoz]

15. india has played nice with russia. Russia won't want to piss them off

it is an air india plane