The message in the official Telegram channel of the Ministry of Communications of Russia says that earlier the plane made an intermediate landing in Samara, where some passengers left. In total there were 203 people on board, 83 of whom went to Sochi.

It is noted that the flight was organized for residents of Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Rostov, Volgograd regions, Bashkiria, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Crimea, Krasnodar Territory.

The flight was carried out on a Boeing 777 aircraft with a capacity of up to 457 passengers. All passengers arriving in Sochi are isolated for two weeks at the observatory.

Earlier, the arrival of an airplane with 113 Russian citizens who were evacuated from Bangkok was reported at the Khabarovsk airport.