Austrian airliner makes forced landing in Minsk airport (photo)

Minsk rescuers received a message on the forced landing of the passenger airliner "Fokker-100" at 2.39 at night. The airliner was flying from Vienna to Minsk and had 81 passengers and 4 crew members aboard. The Press-Secretary of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vital Navitski has informed ERB about this. 
The airliner landed successfully in half an hour. No casualites or victims are reported. According to Navitski, they used 12 rescuing vehicles in the airport.

Navitski: “The airliner has landed successfully. There are no casualties. The preliminary reason for forced landing is breaking of the alarm of the chassis' left leg extension”.








Photo: web-site of the Ministry of Emergency Situations