S7 explained the distress signal on the flight Minvoda – Moscow
Flight S7 2170 Mineral Waters — Moscow October 11 due to restrictions in Domodedovo went to a spare airfield in Nizhny Novgorod, where the crew requested a priority landing and gave a distress signal, told RBC in the press service of S7 Airlines.
Flight S7 2170 Mineral Waters — Moscow October 11 due to restrictions in Domodedovo went to a spare airfield in Nizhny Novgorod, where the crew requested a priority landing and gave a distress signal, told RBC in the press service of S7 Airlines.
Other redirected aircraft were already in the waiting area. "Since the fuel supply did not allow the crew to continue waiting, it requested a priority landing and issued a distress call," it said.
The plane landed, refueled and then continued the flight to Domodedovo.
More than 25 planes en route to Moscow airports were diverted to spare airfields due to flight restrictions. In the same period in Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky temporarily limited the reception and release of aircraft.
