CA856 - Incident: Air China B773 near Nizhnevartovsk on Aug 26th 2025

An Air China Boeing 777-300, registration B-2033 performing flight CA-856 (dep Aug 25th) from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Beijing (China) with 251 passengers and 15 crew, was enroute at FL350 about 330nm west of Nizhnevartovsk (Russia) when the crew declared PAN PAN reporting an engine (GE90) malfunction and shut the engine down. The aircraft drifted down to FL240 and diverted to Nizhnevartovsk for a safe landing on runway 03 about 55 minutes after leaving FL350.

The aircraft is still on the ground in Nizhnevartovsk about 12 hours after landing.