MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti) - A passenger jet has made an emergency landing at a Moscow airport, an emergency service official said Thursday.
The twin-engine Tu-204 aircraft, which is capable of carrying 210 people, was en route to the Far East city of Khabarovsk Thursday evening when it had to return to Domodedovo Airport after an airborne equipment failure, according to preliminary information.
The Domodedovo Airport press service cited Dalavia, a Far Eastern airline that owns the jet, as saying there were 142 people on board.
"Nobody was injured during the emergency landing," said Viktor Beltsov, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
He said experts were checking the technical condition of the airliner. "Presumably, its engines were in order, and its equipment issued a false failure signal," Beltsov said.
But the Ministry of Transportation said engine failure was the cause of the emergency landing.
"At an altitude of 2,400 meters [7,870 feet], a malfunction of the right engine occurred, and the crew decided to burn off fuel and land at Domodedovo Airport," the ministry's press service said.
The service said the airliner's design allowed it to make a successful landing even with only one engine working.
