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Russia’s planes fall apart as Western sanctions block airline repairs

Aeroflot Last September, a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 plane carrying 165 people was forced to crash-land in a wheat field on a modest farmland next to a forest in Novosibirsk, Siberia. When the hydraulic systems of the plane failed while flying from Omsk to Sochi and the plane started to run out of fuel, the… Read More »