Created Wednesday, Dec 23rd 2020 09:59Z, last updated Sunday, Dec 27th 2020 02:30Z
A Rusline Canadair CRJ-100, registration VQ-BND performing flight
7R-425 from Saransk to Mineralnye Vody (Russia) with 43 passengers, was enroute at FL300 about 170nm north of Volgograd (Russia) when the crew observed one of the windshields cracking and established it was the inner pane cracking. The aircraft descended to FL210 maintaining FL210 for about 6 minutes, then declared emergency, continued the descent to 9000 feet MSL reporting cabin pressure problems and decided to divert to Volgograd. The aircraft landed safely in Volgograd about 50 minutes after leaving FL300.
A replacement Canadair CRJ-200 registration VP-BMN reached Mineralnye Vody with a delay of about 6 hours.
The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 46 hours, then positioned to St. Petersburg (Russia) as flight 4R-9505 maintaining a maximum cruise FL100 and returned to service about 17.5 hours after landing in St. Petersburg.
