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Boeing 737 crash-lands in Russia's Kaliningrad region

09:16 02/10/2008

MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - A Boeing 737-300 has crash-landed at the airport in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, a Transportation Ministry spokesman said Thursday. (VIDEO)

"According to Rostransnadzor, a Boeing 737-300 owned by the KD Avia airline crash-landed at the Kaliningrad airport on October 1 on a flight from Barcelona. None of the 108 passengers on board was injured," the spokesman said, referring to the country's transportation regulator.

According to preliminary reports, there was a problem with the plane's landing gear.

The Kaliningrad airport is temporarily closed over the accident.

A similar Boeing jet, owned by Aeroflot Nord, a subsidiary of Russia's flagship air carrier Aeroflot, crashed September 14 on a rail line linking Yekaterinburg and Perm during its final approach to Perm airport in the Urals killing all 88 people onboard.

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