“In connection with the incident, Sheremetyevo Airport was forced to close runway 1 to carry out production work on the evacuation of the aircraft. In this regard, at the time of the evacuation works, there may be delays in ensuring the departures and arrivals of other flights, ”TASS cites the words of the head of the public relations department at Sheremetyevo Anna Zakharenkova.

It is noted that as a result of the incident, none of the 47 people on board were injured.

According to the Interfax source in the air traffic control services, the aircraft was traveling from Moscow to Prague.

Earlier it was reported that in Sheremetyevo unknown unknown illegally entered the board of the flight Moscow - Brussels.