“Investigators ... are conducting an inspection of the scene of the accident, the aircraft, crew members are being interviewed,” the statement said.

It is noted that on board were 193 passengers, of which 22 were children, as well as four crew members. There are no injuries.

Earlier it became known that the plane of Ural Airlines, flying from St. Petersburg to Khujand, made an emergency landing at the airport of Yekaterinburg, as it collided with a flock of birds during take-off.

On August 15, an airplane of Ural Airlines A321, after taking off from the Zhukovsky airport, made an emergency landing due to a collision with a flock of seagulls.

The president of the Sheremetyevo union of flight crews Igor Deldyuzhov, in an interview with the NSN, commented on the hard landing of A321.