Disaster scenario for the 216 passengers and 16 crew members on board an Air India flight. They boarded on Tuesday to reach San Francisco from New Delhi, but their journey had to come to a halt when the plane, a Boeing 777, developed engine problems, explains airline press release. The pilot was then forced to land at Magadan Sokol Airport, Russia.
This is enough to worry the families of the passengers, among whom probably many Americans, according to Vedant Patel, deputy spokesman for the US State Department, quoted by Reuters, while relations between Moscow and Washington are particularly tense in the light of the war in Ukraine. “There are a lot of nervous people here,” according to a passenger interviewed by Indian broadcaster NDTV.
Rudimentary support
Travelers were picked up in “makeshift accommodation”, according to Air India. According to images posted on social networks by one of the passengers on site, the conditions seem extremely rudimentary. People, sometimes elderly, are lying on the ground, close to each other.
Now another plane is on its way to Magadan with a team from Air India “to provide all the support passengers and staff may need,” Air India said in a recent message. posted on social media. However, the crew, basic necessities and food are on board this rescue plane. It will take off with all the passengers on June 8 to reach San Francisco. Regarding the damaged plane, “I don’t know how long it will take to repair the plane, but the passengers will be taken to their final destination,” India’s Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said. to journalists.