Federal Transport Surveillance Administration to examine S7/Siberia aircraft

Russian Transport 2008, the international forum, was held in Sochi on May 22-24, 2008. Ural Airlines’ General Director Sergey Skuratov took part in the event. The forum was dedicated to the country’s transport’s development directions, new transport projects, and analysis of current problems, the airline’s press officer reports. Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Evgeniy Bachurin said in the course of the forum that their branch was developing rather rapidly at the moment, despite certain problems and the need to introduce more domestic flights and upgrade the aircraft. The forum

Airbus 350 belonging to S7/Siberia Airlines JSC had to perform emergency landing in Irkutsk at 7 AM Moscow time today. The aircraft was on flight 778 from Moscow to Irkutsk. Suspected aircraft decompression is reported to have become the possible cause of the accident. There were 170 passengers aboard the plane. ‘There are no casualties, and the incident is not being investigated at the moment,’ PR Director of Russian Federation Department of Transportation Timur Hikmatov said to UrBC representative.

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel and Igor Levitin, Minister for Transportation, met on February 9, 2007 to discuss the transportation network development in the region. According to the spokesperson for the Governor, there was some heated debate about the need for the third runway in Koltsovo airport. Koltsovo’s General Director Mikhail Maximov reported that the company had invested 140 million RUR in the airport reconstruction in 2006 and was going to spend another 160 million in 2007. He said the management had two projects, one providing for the construction of a

Surgut public prosecution authorities for transportation started looking into an incident involving UTair Aviation Company’s Boeing 737 that had to stop the takeoff due to faulty equipment, Interfax-Ural refers to the prosecution authorities as announcing. The incident occurred late at night the other day. The aircraft had no time for takeoff: the decision to stop the flight was taken by the crew during the acceleration. The authorities pointed out that Tyumen Interregional Aviation Transport Administration was investigating the case as well. After the administration comes up with its report,

It was announced in the course of a meeting chaired by First Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Vladimir Molchanov that a regional state-run air carrier dealing in local and regional flights is to be set up in Sverdlovsk Region. The issue was first brought into the limelight during the Russian Federation Minister of Transport Igor Levitin’s visit to Yekaterinburg. The future enterprise will probably be based on the currently operating state-run organization that uses seventeen runways and owns a number of aircraft and some premises. The new business is expected to start operating in