MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS/: Aeroflot’s Moscow-Amsterdam flight has made a scheduled landing at the Russian capital’s Sheremetyevo Airport after a partial failure of the radio communication system, a source with air agencies told TASS on Saturday.
"The plane has made a scheduled landing at the departure airport. The cause of the failure [of the radio communication system] will be established," the source said.
Russia’s major carrier Aeroflot confirmed the reports on a scheduled landing.
"The Airbus 320 flying to Amsterdam landed at Sheremetyevo after burning off the fuel. The landing went off as scheduled. The reason behind the pilot’s decision to return to the departure airport were problems with the radio communication system," Aeroflot’s Spokesman Mikhail Demin told reporters.
It was reported that the Airbus A320 passenger plane flying from Moscow to Amsterdam had issued a distress call about 20 minutes after takeoff at an altitude of about 8,000 meters over the Tver Region.
Demin said then that the pilot had sent a message about a partial failure of the radio communication system and decided to fly back to the departure airport. Demin added that the lives and health of the passengers and crew were not in danger and that the airliner was burning off the fuel.
