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Around 300 passengers unable to depart from Tomsk to Moscow on Wednesday

Over 300 passengers, including 19 children, are awaiting their flight to Moscow from Tomsk Airport due to delays in the arrival of two flights, the West Siberian Transport Prosecutor's press service reported on Wednesday.

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Nearly 300 passengers, including 19 children, are awaiting takeoff for Moscow from Tomsk's airport...
Nearly 300 passengers, including 19 children, are awaiting takeoff for Moscow from Tomsk's airport due to delays in the arrival of two flights, according to a statement made by the press service of the Western Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday.

A Tale of Tomsk: Delays Galore and Stranded Travelers

Around 300 passengers unable to depart from Tomsk to Moscow on Wednesday

Let's talk about the chaos that unfolded in Tomsk back on May 7th. Nearly 300 passengers, among them 19 little ones, found themselves in a pickle, waiting for their flights to Moscow due to some flight delays. The hiccups occurred with two airlines - S7 and Aeroflot, whose planes were stuck in Moscow airports.

It all started with a drone attack on Moscow's airports, the likes of which we've never seen before. The attack, orchestrated by Ukraine, grounded many flights and caused quite a stir across the country, setting off a domino effect that cascaded delays upon Siberian cities like Tomsk.

This investigation was overseen by transport prosecutors as flight delays plagued airports in Abaкан, Barnaul, Gorno-Altaĭske, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Norilsk, and Omsk, to name a few. The expected arrival time for the S7 flight from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport was moved from 6:40 am on May 7th to 6:05 am the next day, while Aeroflot's flight from Sheremetyevo Airport had its arrival time pushed back from 7:20 pm to 9:20 pm on the same day. The evening of the 7th saw Moscow engulfed in heavy turbulence, as an attack by Ukrainian drones led to the temporary shutdown of the city's main airports.

Whether day or night, the struggle for Moscow's airports to return to normalcy continued into the 8th, leaving more than 14,000 passengers stranded on almost 100 flights and causing about 150 additional cancelations on that day. This goes to show that the aftermath of the initial disruption was still being felt, creating a ripple effect that reached even the furthest reaches of Siberia, such as Tomsk Bogashevo Airport.

In essence, the flight delays Tomsk faced on May 7th were but a small part of a larger disruption in air travel that crippled the nation and affected thousands of travelers due to security measures following the drone attack on Moscow airports.

  1. The delayed S7 flight from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, originally scheduled for May 7th at 6:40 am, saw its arrival time stranded at Tomsk Bogashevo Airport until 6:05 am the next day, serving as a testament to the strong impact of the drone attack on Moscow's airports.
  2. On May 7th, Tomsk stumbled into chaos, as 300 passengers, including 19 minors, found their travel lifestyle disrupted when their flights to Moscow were delayed, due to the section of the drone attack's aftermath that struck Moscow's airports.
  3. The general-news event of the drone attack on Moscow's airports caused a huge ripple effect, with delays cascading upon Siberian cities like Tomsk, leaving about 40 flights stranded, causing approximately 150 additional cancelations, and stranding more than 14,000 passengers.
  4. The drone attack on Moscow's airports, which resulted in temporary shutdowns, brought about a strong disruption in air travel that affected the lifestyles of travelers across the nation, including the 300 stranded passengers in Tomsk.

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