Air France passengers board their flight in Siberia, after being stranded for three days. Photo / Instagram, @corinneinfrance
More than 250 airline passengers who endured an unexpected three-day layover in Russia's Siberia region have finally made it to their destination in China.
The extended travel delay began Sunday (local time) when an Air France flight from Paris to Shanghai made an emergency landing in the eastern Siberia city
of Irkutsk after a smoke smell appeared in the cockpit.
The 264 passengers and 18 crew members were taken to hotels, but many weren't dressed for the minus-15 degrees Celsius weather. In any case, they couldn't leave the hotels because they were without Russian visas.
Among the stranded passengers were employees of fashion house Louis Vuitton, who were on their way to China for the opening of the "Volez, Voguez, Voyagez" exhibition at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, WWD reported.
