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The flight owning company had pleaded in court that Aeroflot was told not to fly the aircraft after the lease agreement came to be terminated in March. However Aeroflot continued to fly it between Moscow and Colombo.

The flight departed at 6 pm (local time) this evening, an airport official told reporters.

Uniindia: Colombo, June 5 (UNI) Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday informed Russia through the Foreign Ministry Secretary that the issue over the Aeroflot aircraft is a private legal issue and not between the two countries after the Russian flagship carrier, Aeroflot suspended commercial flights and the sale of tickets to Colombo.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday informed Russian authorities that the grounding of an Aeroflot passenger plane with 200 people on board at the Colombo airport, was because of a private lawsuit and not due to an issue ...

Clearing the diplomatic confusion over the halting of a Russian airplane carrying nearly 200 passengers on Thursday, Sri Lanka said on Friday that the government was not involved in grounding the Russian aircraft.

Uniindia: By Duruthu Edirimuni Chandrasekera<br /

Clearing the diplomatic confusion over the halting of a Russian airplane carrying nearly 200 passengers on Thursday, Sri Lanka said on Friday that the government was not involved in grounding the Russian aircraft.A Russian Aeroflot Airbus SU ...