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Your support makes all the difference.A plane with hundreds of tourists on board made an emergency landing in Russia after one of its engines caught fire soon after takeoff.
All 202 passengers plus crew members were safely evacuated from the Red Wings Tu-204 at Ufa in the Ural mountains.
Tourists on flight number 808 filmed the left-side engine as it sparked and was engulfed in flames.
“There were 202 passengers on board, no injuries reported,” a spokesperson for Ufa airport said.
“All firefighting and rescue units at the airport worked in line with the emergency plan.
“Passengers were evacuated with the help of inflatable emergency escape slides seven minutes after the landing.”
The plane was en route to Sochi, Russia’s main summer seaside resort on the Black Sea.
The plane landed at 5.06am local time, the airport’s website confirmed.
Psychologists and airline representatives were reported to be working with shocked passengers.
The Russian-made plane is undergoing tests.
The airline was re-routing passengers to their destination with other services.
In the video, voices can be heard saying: “Wait, is it actually on fire?”
Another replies: “Yes! Really on fire, yes!”
A flight attendant can be heard saying: “Take your seat!”
One passenger asks: “Are we continuing to gain altitude?”
Someone else replies: “No, no, no, no, we are descending.”
Another passenger then says: “It feels like my desire to fly left me, just a bit. Are you going on holiday?”
One replies: “Yes. It went off a long time ago.”
Ufa is the capital of Russia’s Bashkortostan republic and is situated between the Volga River and the Ural mountains.
In December 2012, a Red Wings Tupolev TU-204-100В crashed at Vnukovo airport in Moscow, killing five of the eight crew members on board.
The Tu-204 holds a maximum 210 passengers.
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