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Squawk 7700 indicates a general emergency on board the aircraft requiring immediate crew action and priority air traffic control attention.
A United Airlines plane flying from Washington to Amsterdam issued a Squawk 7700 distress signal over the Atlantic Ocean and made an emergency landing at St. John's International Airport in Canada, according to flight data studied by RIA Novosti.
The plane took off from Washington on Sunday at 20.47 local time (on Monday 3.47 Moscow time) heading to Amsterdam. However, the plane later sounded Squawk 7700 over the Atlantic Ocean, indicating a "general emergency." The plane turned around and headed towards Canada. As of 9.00 Moscow time, the plane landed in St. John's.

An Indian airline IndiGo plane, flying from Delhi to Chennai, made an emergency landing in Hyderabad after a power bank caught fire in one of the passengers in the plane's cabin.

Due to a malfunction in Yandex services, clients of some travel agencies experienced delays in issuing vouchers and air tickets, although all paid bookings were confirmed. The problem concerns only the issuance of documents, and not the reservations themselves. Travel agencies use alternative channels to receive documents, and the company redirected traffic bypassing Yandex. Bookings on two major online package tour aggregators are also temporarily unavailable.

The Federal Air Transport Agency has lifted restrictions on the arrival and release of aircraft at the Moscow airports Vnukovo and Domodedovo, which were previously introduced to ensure flight safety.

Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports receive and dispatch flights in agreement with the authorities due to temporary restrictions on the use of airspace; changes in the schedule are possible.

More than 25 planes flying to Moscow were diverted to other cities due to security restrictions at Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports. Flights from Saratov, Perm, St. Petersburg and other cities were accepted by Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara and other airports.

At the airports Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Sheremetyevo, temporary restrictions have been introduced on the arrival and release of aircraft to ensure flight safety, reports the Federal Air Transport Agency.