The company says it will face international sanctions if it refuses to perform contractual obligations.
State-owned Antonov, Ukraine's only aircraft manufacturer, has applied to U.S. Department of Transportation for an emergency exemption to operate a single one-way all-cargo charter flight by An-124-100 Ruslan transporting outsized rocket hardware manufactured by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX).
The Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircraft has delivered a new engine to France's A380 aircraft, which had to make an emergency landing in Canada without one of its engines that was severely damaged midflight, according to Gazeta.ru.
The Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircraft has transported two filtration pipeline blocks weighing a total of 24 tonnes from Santiago de Chile to Mendoza (Argentina), on the order of Hunt & Palmer Cargo Charters.