Plane makes emergency landing in Russia

MOSCOW - A passenger plane with 81 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing after all of its systems failed, a media report said Tuesday.

The TU-154 Alrosa airlines plane, carrying 72 passengers and nine crew members, was on its way from the Siberian city of Polyarny to Moscow when its power supply, fuel pumps, radio link and navigation equipment failed, Xinhua reported citing Prime-Tass news agency.

The plane glided down from an altitude of 10,600 metres with no engines working and crash landed at a now defunct airfield for helicopters and small planes in Izhma town in Komi region.

The plane overran the runway by 200 metres and crashed into a nearby forest but no one was hurt, officials said.