00:00 Passengers and crew of a Russian plane had a lucky escape when it was forced to crash land in a field in Siberia.
00:08 The Ural Airlines Airbus A320 was on a flight between the Black Sea resort of Sochi and the Siberian city of Omsk
00:15 when it came down just before 6am Moscow time.
00:19 Authorities said the plane had a technical problem and that it landed at a site selected from the air.
00:24 Officials have opened a criminal investigation on the possible violation of air traffic safety rules.
00:30 [SPLASHING]
00:33 (whooshing)
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