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| 49 injured as Boeing 767 makes hard landing in Siberia, Russia (VIDEO) | 49 injured as Boeing 767 makes hard landing in Siberia, Russia (VIDEO) |
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| Forty-nine passengers were injured as an Azur Air plane with 344 people aboard performed a hard landing in an airport in the Russian city of Barnaul in southern Siberia, not far from the border with Kazakhstan. | Forty-nine passengers were injured as an Azur Air plane with 344 people aboard performed a hard landing in an airport in the Russian city of Barnaul in southern Siberia, not far from the border with Kazakhstan. |
| A landing gear unit caught fire as the Boeing 767-300 touched down. The pilot informed the airport services of the problem, and emergency services swiftly extinguished the blaze. | A landing gear unit caught fire as the Boeing 767-300 touched down. The pilot informed the airport services of the problem, and emergency services swiftly extinguished the blaze. |
| Forty-nine people were injured in the hard landing, but only one of them, a woman with a suspected kidney contusion, required hospitalization. There were 334 passengers and 10 crew members aboard. | Forty-nine people were injured in the hard landing, but only one of them, a woman with a suspected kidney contusion, required hospitalization. There were 334 passengers and 10 crew members aboard. |
| The plane, operated by Russian carrier Azur Air, was returning from Vietnam. Investigators are now working to identify the reasons for the incident. | The plane, operated by Russian carrier Azur Air, was returning from Vietnam. Investigators are now working to identify the reasons for the incident. |
| The witnesses said the plane needed two attempts to land. There was a loud bang as the Boeing made contact with the runway for the first time, and the pilot opted to return to the air. | |
| The aircraft made a circle above the airport before going in for the second attempt. There was smoke in the rear part of the cabin after the landing, which caused panic among the passengers. | |
| “Somebody shouted: ‘We’re on fire.’ And there was chaos as people rushed forward and started pushing each other,” a female witness recalled. But the evacuation was still performed “very fast” and took around 5 minutes, her husband added. | |
| The passengers in Barnaul surely remembered the tragedy at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport this May when 41 people were killed and nine others injured after a plane operated by Russia's flagship carrier Aeroflot caught fire following a botched landing attempt. | |
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