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Ural Airlines passenger A-320 on a wheat field near Novosibirsk as a “serious incident”, the perpetrators of which have not yet been identified. Airlines are advised to provide additional training to pilots to avoid similar situations in the future. For the first landing of a plane in a field in 2019, the pilots were awarded the title of Hero of Russia, and a film was made about the incident itself.
As Kommersant found out, the Federal Air Transport Agency recently sent out flight safety information to airlines, in which it called the emergency landing of an A-320 near Novosibirsk a “serious aviation incident.” The plane, flying from Sochi to Omsk, experienced a failure of one of the hydraulic circuits during landing, according to a document from the Federal Air Transport Agency. Since the Airbus hydraulics consist of three independent circuits, this malfunction did not interfere with the landing, but the crew decided to go around, writes Kommersant.
9.1.5 Retail sector news
Russian food retailer O’Key Group reported a net loss of 2.977bn rubles for the January–June period, contrasting with a net profit of 576mn rubles during the same period in 2022, as calculated under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), according to a company statement on September 18. The revenue showed a modest increase of 1.7%, reaching 99.478bn rubles. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) experienced a 5.4% decrease, amounting to 7.102mn rubles, while the EBITDA margin saw a slight rise from 8.3% to 8.4%. O’Key's total debt saw a 9.1% increase during the period, reaching 48.442bn rubles as of June 30, while net debt grew by 16.7% to 42.521bn rubles.
9.1.6 Agriculture sector news
Russia’s grain harvest should amount to 130mn tonnes in 2023, and its grain exports from July 1 through June 30, 2024 should reach 60mn tonnes, Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev said on September 21 during a session of the parliament’s lower chamber State Duma.
Researcher Sovecon has raised Russia’s wheat export forecast to record 48.6mn tonnes from 48.1mn tonnes in the 2023–2024 agricultural year starting July 1, 2023, it said in a statement on September 5. The overall grain export forecast was raised to 60.7mn tonnes from 59.1mn tonnes
The Russian fisheries industry remains the largest player in the world market and continues to provide a fairly stable volume of catch, agriculture minister Dmitry Patrushev said on Wednesday. He was speaking at the plenary session of the 6th Global Fishery Forum. Earlier, the Federal Fisheries Agency
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