UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2019. Ural Airlines’ passenger plane had to perform an emergency landing near Moscow; Ural Airlines flight U6178 (Zhukovsky-Simferopol) hit a flock of birds shortly after take-off, the air carrier’s press service reports.

‘The birds got sucked into the engines, so the pilot had to make an emergency landing. There are no casualties among either the crew members or the passengers,’ the press service says.