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 "The plane made a safe landing ... no passengers were injured,"
Russian airline UTair, which operated the flight, said in a
statement.
UTair is Russia's third-largest airline by passenger numbers and is
more than 60 percent owned by a pension fund of oil company
Surgutneftegaz. It carried 11.2 million passengers in 2014, up 7
percent on 2013.
The economic crisis has hit the company hard - it is being sued by a
number of creditors over unpaid debts and defaulted on seven bond
issues worth a combined 10 billion rubles late last year.
It has asked for state guarantees to help restructure its debt which
stands at around 168 billion rubles ($2.95 billion), including 85.2
billion in leasing liabilities.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov and Maria Kiselyova, writing by
Elizabeth Piper, editing by Timothy Heritage)
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