Russian flight safety deteriorating

[ORAC]

https://twitter.com/chriso_wiki/stat...HhlFHGKbTPQr_A

Sanctions on the Russian aviation industry are leading to an increasing number of malfunctions and emergency landings, due to a lack of maintenance and technical support, and an acute shortage of spare parts. Safety is said to be gradually deteriorating.

The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reports that sanctions have had drastic effects on Russian airlines, which overwhelmingly rely on Western-made aircraft. ….

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...751532544.html

[atakacs]

Well I guess not a surprise and not going to get better anytime soon.
Maybe a wake-up call for some other countries.

[ATC Watcher]

Originally Posted by atakacs

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Maybe a wake-up call for some other countries.

While I am sure the aviation professionals in thsoe countries do care, their political ( or military) leaders do not . Civil airlines in countries like Afgahnistan , Lybia , Mali, atc operate that way , or are simply gone, , and probably the same is happenning in Sudan today.

[Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP]

Originally Posted by ORAC

Sanctions on the Russian aviation industry are leading to an increasing number of malfunctions and emergency landings, due to a lack of maintenance and technical support, and an acute shortage of spare parts. Safety is said to be gradually deteriorating.

The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reports that sanctions have had drastic effects on Russian airlines, which overwhelmingly rely on Western-made aircraft. ….

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...751532544.html

They forgot to add "stolen" Western-made aircraft....

[WideScreen]

Russians / Putin should be very satisfied: The happy return to the good old/glorious Soviet age, everything being better than what the West produces.

Are we allowed to gamble on PP: When will the first aluminum-plated black krater happen in Russia?