00:00 A Russian passenger jet Airbus A320 with 159 people on board made an emergency landing
00:12 in a Serbian field on Tuesday.
00:15 According to Russia's aviation agency, the incident took place on Tuesday and the aircraft
00:20 made an emergency landing when it was flying from the Black Sea resort of Sochi to the
00:25 Serbian city of Omsk.
00:28 The video of the plane stationed in the Serbian field started circulating online.
00:32 However, the authorities assured there were no casualties from the incident.
00:37 The passengers were accommodated at a nearby population center.
00:42 At 5.44 Moscow time, near the village of Kamenka, an unscheduled landing of the Ural Airlines
00:48 A320 aircraft flying along with Sochi-Omsk crew was successfully carried out.
00:56 The Russian aviation agency said in a statement.
00:59 According to the crew, there are 159 passengers and six crew members on board.
01:04 Contact with the crew has been established.
01:07 All passengers are accommodated in the nearest village.
01:11 According to preliminary data, no one sought medical help, the Russian aviation agency
01:17 said in a statement.
01:19 The statement furthered, "The Russian aviation agency has witnessed a massive setback aimed
01:25 at Western sanctions due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war."
01:29 According to the Russia's federal agency, the landing took place near the village of
01:33 Kamenka, which is located about 180 km from Novosibirsk.
01:39 The authorities set up an operation headquarters in the Novosibirsk region, and the rescue
01:44 workers from the Federal Air Transport Agency flew from Omsk to take part in the rescue
01:50 operations.
01:51 While the region behind the emergency landing is still not clear, the aviation agency has
01:56 formed a commission that will investigate the matter.
02:00 To investigate the cause and circumstances of the serious aviation incident involving
02:05 a Ural Airlines plane, the Federal Air Transport Agency has formed a commission, which has
02:11 already been sent to the scene of the event.
02:15 Rosa Vyatsya stated in another statement, "Ural Airlines General Director dismissed the
02:20 possibility that the plane's technical difficulties were linked to shortages of spare aircraft
02:26 parts bought by the Western sanctions.
02:28 Ural Airlines is a domestic Russian airline based in the city of Yekaterinburg."
02:34 "The plane was not burned.
02:40 One side was a little smoked.
02:44 Buses arrived, fire trucks.
02:50 Hand luggage was lowered.
02:51 Everything was sorted out."
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