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Passenger plane makes emergency landing in Moscow

18:45 05/09/2009

MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) - An airplane with 208 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing at one of Moscow's international airports on Saturday, Vesti television has reported.

One of the airplane's engines had failed and pilots made the decision to land at Vnukovo International Airport. No one on board the aircraft was injured.

The Red Wings Airlines TU-204 departed from Nizhny Novgorod in Russia's Volga region and was taking passengers to the Turkish resort city of Antalya.

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