Passenger Yak-42 returns to Ufa airport due to engine failure

According to Maya Ivanova, senior assistant to the Volga Transport Prosecutor for Media and Public Relations, flight KI-9551 left Ufa at 21:39 local time (19:39 Moscow time).

“Passengers: 70 adults, one child and two minors, there is no dangerous cargo, the crew is 8 (people. - RT ). Failure of the third engine. Returns to the departure airport, ”TASS quotes her.

The prosecutor’s office specified that the aircraft is currently producing fuel and plans to land at 01:50 local time (23:50 Moscow time).

On November 1, the passenger plane Sukhoi Superjet 100 made an emergency landing at the Tyumen airport due to engine malfunction. Later it became known that a bird had become the cause of the engine failure.