Jet with 220 passengers on board avoids crash

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Published time: February 09, 2011 08:54
Edited time: February 09, 2011 12:23

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Over 200 passengers have been forced to spend several panic-stricken hours in the air as their plane circled a Siberian airport.

The plane belonged to Severny Veter (Northern Wind) airline, and was headed from Kemerovo in eastern Siberia to Bangkok, Thailand. It made an emergency landing in the city of Novosibirsk after the crew found out that landing gear had failed to retract.

Before the landing, the jet was circling the airport for several hours burning off fuel.

Fortunately, no one was injured, but ambulances and emergency service workers were waiting at the airport in order to provide help to the passengers, who spent hours in the air knowing that there was something wrong with the jet.

A reserve plane with all 220 passengers on board has taken off from Novosibirsk’s airport. It will make the flight directly to Bangkok.

Transport prosecutor's offices of Kemerovo and Novosibirsk are investigating the incident.

Comments (2)

H W 09.03.2011 22:09

Panic-Stricken? Come on, the pilots had it under control the whole time. Somehow this plane magically stayed in the air for 2 hours when there was "something wrong with it." The wheels stayed down. Who cares. There are actually airplanes that the wheels don't ever go up, and the passengers are not "panic stricken" all the way to their destination. The real story here should be:Passengers had to be waited on hand and foot by hard working flight attendants for 2 whole hours!!

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Norman Hill 10.02.2011 00:18

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing!

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