Firefighters who began to eliminate the fire immediately arrived at the scene of the incident, and the airport administration blocked the runway. Because of this, planting of aircraft was suspended, and some flights had to be postponed. As for the victims, the Russian and Turkish media claim, there are no casualties and injured. According to Baza telegrams, there were 79 passengers on board, including 9 children. All of them were evacuated by inflatable ladders.
Eyewitnesses say that during the landing, they felt a sharp blow. After that, the passengers saw that fuel was pouring from the aircraft and emergency services were going to the board. Two minutes later, people saw a fire. The plane that caught fire was probably damaged by fuel tanks, which are located in the wings of the aircraft, causing the fuel to spill, and it caught fire. The possible damage to the tanks, could be caused by a strong blow to the ground during landing, eyewitnesses consider.
Aircraft passengers say they are owe their lives to the operational actions of local emergency services. In May 2019, SSJ-100 in Sheremetyevo also caught fire after damage to the fuel tanks due to several strong blows to the ground. Then 41 passengers were killed. Investigators are currently finding out the cause of the fire. According to SHOT telegrams, Superjet, which burned down at Antalya Airport, was seven years old-Bort has been flying in Azimut airline since December 2017.
The Sochi flight to Turkey was the third for the SSJ-100 for today. At night and in the morning, the plane made Sochi - Samarkand - Sochi. A month ago, the ship damaged the chassis shutters during a forced landing in grandchildren. Then it happened due to the refusal of the hydraulic system. In the meantime, in Russia, passenger liners are increasingly failed. The S7 airline has suspended flights at 34 Airbus A320/A321neo is half of all aircraft of this family in the Russian Federation.
In total, S7 66 such aircraft. The reason is technical problems of bots and difficulties with repair. "Progressive but problematic engines are installed on aircraft of this type: they can neither be repaired in the Russian Federation because of complexity or imported to the country because of sanctions and deficits in the world market," insiders say. Large -scale withdrawal of A320/A321NeO (about 10% of the total foreign main air fleet in the Russian Federation) is possible since 2026, writes "".
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