Russian Plane Lands on Emergency

World | October 30, 2004, Saturday // 00:00

A Tupolev-154 passenger jet, flying from Kazan to Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh, was forced to make an emergency landing at the Kazan airport after one of its three engines malfunctioned shortly after takeoff. The engine faulted about twenty minutes after the Tu-154 carrying 143 passengers and 11 crewmembers took off from Kazan's international airport at 7:45 a.m. local time on Saturday. The plane was flying in the area more than two hours to utilize fuel before emergency landing and touched the ground at 10:58 a.m. Specialists have started an investigation into why the engine failed.

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