Ural Airlines will dismantle its Airbus A320 for spare parts, which has been standing in a wheat field near Novosibirsk since an emergency landing in September 2023.
The plane with 167 passengers was flying from Sochi to Omsk, but was diverted to Novosibirsk after a hydraulic system failure. There was not enough fuel, and the plane landed safely a little earlier.
As Aviatransportnoye Obozreniye notes, citing the words of Sergey Skuratov, former general director of Ural Airlines, the aircraft otherwise remained intact. After paying the insurance amount, the carrier receives the right to disassemble it with the right to use its parts as spare parts on its other aircraft. By the spring of 2025, the aircraft will finally leave the field in parts.
It is known that after the emergency situation, the airline had 51 aircraft: 4 A319ceo, 22 A320ceo, 3 A320neo, 14 A321ceo and 8 A321neo. Two of these aircraft were decommissioned after some of their parts had reached the end of their service life. The act of aviation "cannibalism" will help extend their life until the carrier receives a completely new import-substituted MS-21. According to some reports, Ural Airlines intends to purchase at least one such aircraft.
"Cannibalization" of aircraft in world practice is the ability for airlines and aviation enterprises to disassemble aircraft, removing serviceable spare parts from them for storage or reinstallation on other aircraft. It was allowed in Russia after the tightening of anti-Russian sanctions, as the Cabinet of Ministers adopted amendments to Decree No. 353 in December 2022. These amendments also made it possible to install non-original foreign spare parts on aircraft and extend the maintenance periods of aircraft.
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