BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

02/08/2008

Russian Aircraft Makes Emergency Landing in Belarus

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax

Minsk, 2 August: A Tu-204 aircraft of Russia's Red Wings Airlines made an emergency landing at Minsk national airport on Saturday [2 August], an airport representative has told Interfax.

According to him, the plane was conducting a Venice-Moscow flight. A total of 191 passengers were on board.

"The reason for the emergency landing was a dangerous vibration in the first engine," the agency's interlocutor said. He added that the landing was made with one working engine.

No-one was hurt as a result of the incident. Now all the passengers are inside the airport terminal. A standby plane is expected to arrive shortly from Moscow to pick them up, the airport representative said.

Originally published by Interfax news agency, Moscow, in Russian 1044 2 Aug 08.

Source:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1506762/russian_aircraft_makes_emergency_landing_in_belarus/

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