The expert decided to reassure the Russians after two plane breakdowns in a row

Such “sedatives” obviously suit aviation officials quite well.

Another emergency with a Russian plane occurred in the air. So far, thank God, it ended well. The S7 Airlines (Siberia) plane experienced engine surging after takeoff, the Eastern Interregional Investigative Committee for Transport of the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement. The airliner was successfully landed.

Another thing is alarming. Already on a regular basis there is information non-stop about still minor problems in the operation of aircraft.

When they reported a plane accident in Novosibirsk in the morning, colleagues asked in surprise: wasn’t it yesterday? And yesterday too.

Over the past two days, two similar accidents with aircraft engines have occurred. The aircraft made an emergency landing immediately after takeoff due to a fire.

On Thursday, December 7, in Ulan-Ude, a cargo Tu-204 was forced to return to the ground a few minutes later.

And this is only two days. Meanwhile, the number of emergencies associated with the failure of certain systems continues to grow. Last year, experts gave a period of one to one and a half years, after which equipment failures due to the lack of full-fledged after-sales service would become widespread.

Of course, some repairs can be done on the knees, disassembling some aircraft and rearranging parts from them, and some can be dealt with using parallel imports. But all this is for the time being.

How long will this luck last in a country where only two civil aircraft were built over the past year?

One of the major airlines, preventing negative consequences, has recently already canceled all flights to Nizhny Novgorod from January 15. According to media reports, the reason for this was difficulties in servicing the Airbus A320/A321neo. Now the company cannot operate about 20% of the fleet.

One of the aviation experts recently gave me a comment and reassured me how well we were doing. Very sincerely, it seemed to me that he even believed it himself. They say that all these Boeings and Airbuses actually fly abroad for maintenance as before, bypassing sanctions.

It seems to me that approximately the same reassuring tales are reported to the biggest leaders so that they do not worry: aircraft factories are being built, and European corrupt officials, risking their careers, help Russians maintain aircraft by circumventing the bans.

I decided to ask again: what about the system for tracking aircraft in flight? Are they crossing the border, and in large numbers?

“Yes, they turn off this system, and that’s it,” the interlocutor answered without worrying too much. After which I definitely stopped believing in all these fairy tales. I am not a high official who will never fly on a regular plane, so I agree with any optimistic reports, this directly concerns me specifically. Better the bitter truth than lies in red daddies. All this bravado before the first serious emergency.

Airlines, judging by the fact that they are canceling short-haul flights, also realize that they are not magicians. If something happens, they will be the last ones – up to closure – they will be the ones. Although what are they to blame for here?

What then? Then Russia will reduce the availability of trains to 2-3 days for the majority? But trains don’t last forever either…