Six takeoffs and six landings. Boeing 767 of Royal Flight visited Tanzania, Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya and Jordan. Because for three days the liner is almost always to make flights, on Board were three crew reinforced a total population of 40 people, including two technicians.
the Russian foreign office has launched an unprecedented export of compatriots from abroad in March, as soon as the country began to suspend air traffic from the spread of coronavirus. During this time the aircraft of various Russian airlines were evacuated several thousand people (list of flights indicating the number taken can be viewed on the website of the foreign Ministry). The organization of these flights worth the hard hard work of diplomats and representatives of many other agencies.
“Alhasa the Rishatovich 74. He could barely speak and he walks with a cane – recently suffered a stroke. His way from neighbouring Rwanda on the car of Embassy of Russia in Uganda amounted to 19 hours. He really wanted to seize him the opportunity to return home,” wrote on his page in Facebook Deputy Director of the Department of information and press of the MFA of Russia Denis Mikerin. And dozens of such cases when it is necessary to study not only the departure but also a way to get a person from a different country to the airport.
As noted by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, speaking to RIA Novosti on the preparation of the current African export route, ” it really is probably the most difficult flight.” According to her, “airports in some countries were opened under the Russian side, in principle, they do not work.” In addition, exported citizens in these countries it was not possible to join the training flights of other States, to transit through them to be at home, that is, they were trapped in the host countries. This, she said, “it is necessary to add local specificity – the heat, the epidemiological situation and General weather conditions.”
