"Kommersant" learned about the flights of aircraft in Russia with expired parts

According to Rostransnadzor, which leads the newspaper, over the past year in RUSSIA, more than 2 thousand flights took place using components with an expired resource. Airlines told Kommersant that they comply with all requirementssecurity

Last year, Rostransnadzor revealed more than 2,000 flights during which aircraft used expired spare parts and components, Kommersant reports, citing a recording of a speech in the State Duma by the HEAD of the service, Viktor Basargin.

“Numerous facts of operation of aviation equipment with violations that directly affect flight safety are recorded. For example, admission to the operation of components with an expired resource. In total, more than 2,000 such flights have been recorded,” he said.

According to Basargin, this is due to an increase in the cost and delivery time of parts, in some cases they are completely “impossible to deliver”.

Aeroflot told the newspaper that they “do not use expired aircraft components” and have a sufficient number of spare parts. Sources of "Kommersant" in other airlines also said that they comply with safety standards, "as before", and excluded the use of expired parts.

The interlocutor of the publication from the expert community also said that airlines prefer not to fly with expired components. He cited the carrier Azur Air as an example: it has 22 aircraft in its fleet, 13 of which fly. Five Boeing 767s are not used, as, for example, they are waiting for permission from the authorities to EXPORT engines abroad for repairs.

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The New York Times (NYT) reported in May that despite the sanctions , Russian airlines received aircraft parts from the United States last year . Thousands of shipments worth $14.4 million were sent, the publication claims. Spare parts were received by Aeroflot and its subsidiaries - Rossiya and Pobeda, Ural Airlines, S7 Airlines, Utair - some of these companies are under Western restrictions.

According to the NYT, there are complex supply chains that involve front buyers from Asia and the Middle East. Washington managed to uncover one of these schemes: Russian businessmen Oleg Patsulya and Vasily Besedin were arrested in this case, they face up to 20 years in prison for violating export restrictions and the same amount for conspiracy to commit international money laundering.