Another Sukhoi Jet Makes Emergency Landing In Russia, Second In Two Days

A Russian Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SS-100) plane with 54 passengers aboard made an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on June 15 after the air-conditioning system malfunctioned. Two days earlier, another SS-100 jet flying from Moscow to Kazakhstan’s Caspian port city of Aqtau made an emergency landing in the Russian city of Samara due to problems in one of its engines. After Western sanctions were imposed on Russia over its full-scale aggression against Ukraine launched last year, Russia had to decrease production of the jets due to shortages of parts. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.