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Passenger plane with technical malfunction safely lands in St. Petersburg

14 January 2021 09:10 (UTC +04:00)

A passenger plane operated by the Yamal air company in distress has safely landed at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport, a source in the emergencies services said on Thursday, APA reports citing TASS.

"The plane landed routinely. No involvement of emergencies service was needed. No one was hurt," the source said.

According to Flightradar, the plane landed at 07:01.

The A320 aircraft took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo at 03:30 a.m. Moscow time and was bound for Salekhard. The plane developed problems with its airspeed gauges immediately after the takeoff. The pilots decided not to return to Domodedovo because of the snow storm and headed for St. Petersburg.