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SSJ100 Plane Lands Safely at Moscow's Sheremetyevo After Left Engine Failure

05:38 GMT, 5 May 2020
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane en route from the southwestern Russian city of Saratov to Moscow safely landed at the capital’s Sheremetyevo International Airport on Tuesday after experiencing a left engine malfunction, a representative of the emergency services told Sputnik.
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"Sheremetyevo Airport. Sukhoi Superjet, flight 1356 Saratov-Moscow. Failure of the left engine," the representative said.

The plane landed safely at 7:16 a.m. Moscow time (4:16 GMT), they added.

In February, another Sukhoi Superjet aircraft travelling from Berlin landed safely at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport after a warning of landing gear malfunction.

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