Originally Posted by WHBM

Well, if it wasn't a 767 from Transaero, the other aircraft they had at the time capable of doing this was the DC-10-30. They leased several from American in the late 1990s when the latter were done with them, they only lasted a couple of years before returning home and joining the Hawaiian fleet. Here's one obviously showing it's AA background https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F..._AN0387108.jpg

And so if it was a Transaero DC-10, the other Russian carrier who had them at the time possibly was Kras Air, who likewise got a couple from KLM and had an unsuccessful shot at USA flights, this could have been one of them. They also went over to the US shortly afterwards, into the Continental fleet. Here : https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/68577

Kras Air was one of the typical liberated "Old Aeroflot" trying-hard regional offshoots, this being the onetime Krasnoyarsk division (it's a big city in Siberia). Several of them carried on with their regional-based flights, and also opened up a Moscow base as well - the trunk route from their original base to Moscow generally being their No 1 route. There were lots of comings and goings as airlines there settled down.

Now knowledgeable JL may not have heard of Kras Air, but if you flick back through some very old FT posts of mine, say here : https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...ml#post7524661 you see I refer to them, because the very first aircraft I saw when landing on first-trip arrival in Russia, in St Petersburg, was a Kras Air IL-62, no less, departing. It was a great introduction to the country - though as some may know my attention was soon diverted elsewhere