US Surveillance Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Siberia

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A US aircraft carrying out an observation flight over Russia was forced to make an emergency landing at Khabarovsk’s airport due to an apparent landing gear malfunction.

The aircraft took off from Ulan-Ude, a city to the east of Lake Baikal, and was heading to the Russian city of Yakutsk.

However, one of the plane’s landing gears had apparently malfunctioned and failed to retract after takeoff, so the crew decided to make a forced landing in Khabarovsk, RIA Novosti reports.

The Khabarovsk airport administration also confirmed that an aircraft with a stuck landing gear made an unscheduled landing there.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team