INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
first days of 2023.Experts and industry figures had voiced concerns about flight safety in 2022, a year that saw more than 130 incidents
including 28 plane crashes.Major plane makers Boeing and Airbus halted deliveries of new foreign jets and spare parts, forcing
6:An Azur Air international flight to Thailand with 263 people on board returned to Novosibirsk six hours after takeoff due to windshield
8:A Pobeda airliner slid off the runway into the snow in Perm, causing pilots to abort a flight to Moscow
9:A lavatory breakdown forced an S7 Airlines Airbus A320neo from Bratsk to Moscow to land in Kazan after four hours in the air.Two people
died and four others were injured when a Soviet-era An-2 passenger aircraft crashed in the Russian Far East in freezing weather.Another
filmed by a passenger showed him seated in the depressurized cabin at a high altitude with loud winds blowing and the open door visible in
the background.Passengers said some of their luggage and hats were sucked out as the pilot returned the Magadan-bound plane to Yakutsk
10:A NordStar Boeing 737 slid off the icy runway north of the Arctic Circle, delaying the flight to Moscow for 116 passengers and six crew
An inspection ruled the aircraft safe enough to perform the flight later that day.
