A plane en route from St. Petersburg to Antalya landed in Hungary

March 2, 2023, 01:39 – Public Information Service – TEH – The “first” flight after the suspension of flights from the Russian Federation to European Union states due to sanctions restrictions was carried out on March 1. He was followed by passengers of the flight St. Petersburg – Antalya, who, unknown to him, landed in Hungary instead of Turkey. Fontanka writes about this, referring to information from the Flightradar24 service.
So, according to Flightradar24, the Turkish Airlines flight TK3673 St. Petersburg – Antalya first flew over Lithuania and intended to land in Kaunas, and then began to fly over Slovakia again. Only some time later he flew to the capital of Hungary.new code123
There have been no direct flights from the Russian Federation to Budapest since the date of the introduction of mutual restrictions on air carrier flights.
Earlier, a Red Wings plane made an emergency landing in Sochi. There were a hundred people on board. The aircraft was on an Istanbul-Novosibirsk flight. The crew commander requested an emergency landing due to cabin depressurization.
There is evidence that there were 96 passengers and four other crew members on the plane. Representatives of the Red Wings announced that it was all due to improperly closed valves on the tailgate. Read more about this in the Public News Service material.