OREANDA-NEWS Broken wipers prevented a Russian plane from landing the first time at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport during a thunderstorm. This is reported by the Telegram channel Aviatorschina.

It is clarified that the Boeing 737 landed at around 12:30 Moscow time on Thursday, August 8. At an altitude of 1200 meters, the windscreen wipers stopped working at the liner. The aircraft commander reported the problem to the dispatchers and requested departure to the waiting area until the weather conditions improved.

According to the source, half an hour later, the pilots made a safe landing on the second attempt. A few hours later, after the specialists repaired the wipers, the liner flew to Naberezhnye Chelny.

On August 7, the plane of the Russian airline Ural Airlines made an emergency landing in Vladivostok due to a malfunction. There were 162 passengers on board the liner.