BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

04/10/2009

Aeroflot plane makes emergency landing in Minsk

An Aeroflot passenger plane flying from Prague to Moscow made an emergency landing in Minsk on Sunday after a faulty depressurisation warning, Russian and Belarussian officials said.

"An Airbus A320 landed after 1600 local time (1300 GMT). No one was hurt," a Belarussian airport official told AFP.

A warning device had said that the cabin was depressurising, Aeroflot spokesman Lev Kochliakov was quoted as saying by the Itar-Tass news agency, adding that checks on the ground showed that the warning was false.

Passengers are staying in a Minsk hotel pending the arrival of an engineer to authorise the flight to take off again and may be flown to Moscow by Belarussian Belavia airline, Kochliakov said.

Source:

http://news.my.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3622551

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