Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg had to stop operating from 11.17 PM to 12.50 AM and from 3.50 AM to 4.50 AM on July 12, 2007 due to a major lightning storm. This resulted in planes bound to Krasnoyarsk, Bishkek, Vladivostok, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk taking off later than had been expected.

Aviaprad’s planes coming from Samara and Ufa arrived in Yekaterinburg with great delays. Moreover, the carrier had to put off flights to Noviy Urengoi and Beloyarskiy.