Incident - Air India VT-ANP Diverts to Russia

[admin]

Sep 4th 2024, technical issue

An Air Indias VT-ANP performing flight AI-113 from Delhi to Birmingham with 275 persons on board, had to divert due to an as yet unknown technical issue at FL400 approx 145nm westnorthwest of Moscow

The crew decided to divert to Moscow where they landed without further incident

According to the AV hearld https://avherald.com/h?article=51d4849b&opt=0, the transponder signals from the aircraft are not reliable due to the ongoing disruption of GPS signals in the area.

[david]

Makes you wonder if this aircraft will leave Russia with the current conflict ongoing and block on spares etc going into the area.

[admin]

Aircraft was repaired and is now in the UK