Utair Boeing 737-800 seriously damaged in Sochi overrun

A Utair Aviation Boeing 737-800 ( VQ-BJI) has been seriously damaged after a runway overrun at Sochi Airport on Sept. 1. The aircraft, which was inbound from Moscow Vnukovo, landed at Sochi and came to a stop in a nearby riverbed at 0300 local time. The wing and landing gears were destroyed and the...
Polina Montag-Girmes

Polina joined the Air Transport World team in 2011, covering Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States. She studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked as a journalist for Russian business and airline publications since 2000.

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