The Boeing 747 on the London Beijing flight made an emergency landing at Irkutsk airport after avionics failure. There were 289 people on board, including 8 crew members, and emergency services and other agencies were deployed.
At 10:00, the senior operational duty officer of the Crisis Management Center of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Irkutsk Region received information from the duty officer of the PDSA about a planned emergency landing of a Boeing-747 aircraft on flight No. BAW-39 "London-Beijing". According to the report of the crew commander, an avionics failure (onboard software) had occurred. The commander decided to land at the airport in Irkutsk.There were 289 passengers on board the aircraft, including 8 crew members. A total of 120 people and 34 units of equipment were involved in the incident, including 17 people and 4 units of equipment from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Based on materials from the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Irkutsk Region