“The incident occurred on October 27, the plane went to the runway, and the bird got into the left engine, it was decided to return the board,” RIA Novosti quoted the representative of the Transport Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the North Caucasus Federal District.

It is noted that on board there were 150 people and six crew members.

Earlier, a Ural Airlines airline flying from Krasnodar to Irkutsk made an emergency landing in Yekaterinburg due to a collision with a bird.