A Russian passenger plane from Ural Airlines’ performed an emergency landing near Moscow shortly after take-off on Thursday after birds were sucked into its engines. There were no casualties reported in the incident.
The Ural Airlines’ flight U6178 was travelling from Moscow to Crimea’s Simferopol.
The Ural Airlines A-321 passenger plane is seen on the site of its emergency landing in a field outside Zhukovsky airport in Ramensky district of Moscow region, Russia, 15 August 2019. EPA-EFE/SERGEI ILNITSKY The Airbus 321, with 234 people on board, made an emergency landing near Zhukovsky International Airport, south-east of Moscow.
Via Reuters / Moscow Times
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