Plane makes emergency landing in Sofia

By IANS
Friday, December 10, 2010

SOFIA - A Bulgarian plane - with 29 passengers and seven crew on board - took off from Sofia for Moscow Friday, but had to turn back and make an emergency landing after one of its engines failed, a media report said.

The Bulgaria Air flight FB 363 from the Bulgarian capital city to Moscow made an emergency landing at Sofia Airport at 5.02 p.m. (1502 GMT), Xinhua reported citing local news agency BTA.

The flight had taken off from Sofia at 4.30 p.m. (1430 GMT), but after an indication of an engine failure, the aircraft had to turn back.

No one was hurt in the incident.

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