Americans play the 'waiting game' after last passenger plane from Moscow canceled.
A teacher whose father is suffering from cancer is one of scores of American citizens trapped in Russia after the last passenger flight to the U.S. was canceled amid theGrace Mitchell, 26, told NBC News that she had had no plans to leave her home in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia until she got a phone call from her mother saying her father’s cancer had taken a turn for the worse.
"All we could do, really, was try to get the last flight out of Russia, because if I don't get a flight soon, then I probably won't see my dad ever again," Mitchell said. A selfie photo of passenger Grace Mitchell showing the mask she was wearing in preparation for a flight at Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport.So on Friday, along with hundreds of other passengers, Mitchell, an English teacher from Washington state,boarded Aeroflot Flight 102 at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, thinking it was her last chance to get home.government restricted international travelThe U.S.
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