While preparing to fly from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport onto an Emirates Airbus A380 a water tanker hit. Earlier, its driver was said to have felt unwell.
According to information provided by the Mash channel on Telegram, the driver of the car, 59-year-old Vladimir R., was paralyzed while driving as a result of a stroke.
Russia. Incident at Domodedovo airport
There were no passengers on board the A380 at the time of the collision. As a result of an accident the lower part of the plane's fuselage was damaged for a length of several meters near the main chassis.
Planned flight from Moscow to Dubai has been canceled. The airport press service reported that passengers will fly to their destination on a replacement flightand the delay will not exceed eight hours.
As a result of the incident, the driver of the water vehicle was taken to hospital in a serious condition after losing control of the tanker. Services are currently working on site, trying to determine the circumstances of the incident and assess the extent of the damage.
Russia. Another incident involving a plane
The above-mentioned accident is another incident in a series of unfortunate events at Russian airports, where machines are subject to more and more frequent breakdowns. For the most part, the reason for this is to be sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation by countries condemning the attack on Ukraine.
A significant number of air accidents in Russia are most likely related to the ban imposed on foreign companies servicing aircraft of Russian airlines and supplying spare parts for them.
Emergency landings and failures have become almost everyday occurrences in aviation. In mid-January at the airport Mirny in Russia after landing a passenger jet skidded off the runway. A month later, the media reported two failures of Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100-95 passenger aircraft in one day. The first one experienced problems with the engine shortly after take-off, and the second one with the landing gear. Both were forced to make an emergency landing.
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