The board from Khabarovsk to Moscow, which appealed for emergency landing, belongs to airline "Dalavia", reported the Aeroflot official Irina Danneberg.
"According to the agreement with "Dalavia" airlines, beginning with wintertime we passed them this flight, but the tickets bear our code SU ", explained Danneborg. "We don?t engage TU-124 operation, we don?t have a flight to Khabarovsk", added she.
The board TU-124, making a flight from Khabarovsk to Moscow, has a problem with jammed gear, the captain had to turn the board back to Khabarovsk, said Danneberg.
"Flight N H-664, the board TU-214, belonging to airlines "Dalavia", having singed with Aerophlot the code-sharing agreement a flight from, appeared problems with gear. It is a small technical problem, which however made the captain turn back to Khabarovsk, where there is IL-62 waiting, which shall take the H-664 flight passengers to Moscow.", explained the official.
Earlier, the Russian Emergency Ministry reported about TU-154.
"The board has spent 2 hours in air to run out the fuel. It is expected to stay in the air until 9.p.m. local time", said the official.
According to Russian Emergency Ministry data, there are 154 passengers and 9 crew-members.
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