An Embraer passenger plane with 80 passengers on board made an emergency landing in Samara.
S7 airliner that departed from Novosibirsk made an emergency landing at the Samara airfield due to a malfunction of the front steering column. It was reported by Interfax, citing its own source in the emergency services.
It is known that there were 78 passengers and three crew members on board the plane. None of them were injured. The airliner landed at 14:44 local time.
The causes and circumstances of the emergency landing of the aircraft are being investigated.
Earlier it was reported that the prosecutor's office will conduct a check because of a fire in the engine of the Utair airline plane, which was to make a flight on the Tyumen - Yerevan route.