Hundreds stranded as Khabarovsk flights diverted amid severe weather
Poor Weather Disrupts Flights in Khabarovsk, Stranding Hundreds
Bad weather in Khabarovsk has disrupted air travel, forcing three passenger planes to divert to Vladivostok after they were unable to land at the city's airport.
According to the Far Eastern Transport Prosecutor's Office, two Aeroflot flights were en route from Thailand, while a third aircraft, operated by Ural Airlines, was flying in from Yekaterinburg. Over 700 passengers remain stranded at the airport.
On February 23, as weather conditions improve, the planes are expected to resume their flights to Khabarovsk. Meanwhile, Vladivostok is also preparing to receive another Ural Airlines flight arriving from Omsk.
*In late January, some 200 passengers were left stranded for nearly a full day at a Kazakh airport after a pilot refused to "risk lives." The SCAT Airlines flight, traveling from Vietnam's Phu Quoc, made a scheduled refueling stop in Taraz. What was meant to be a one-hour layover turned into an extended ordeal in the transit zone after the pilot deemed the aircraft unsafe to fly.
