The Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport bore a safe emergency landing of a Russian Ural Airlines Airbus A321 on Friday evening.
The airport received a report from the pilot of the plane – which was heading from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport to Yekaterinburg Airport in Russia with 236 passengers on board – that there was a technical failure in one of the engines ten minutes after takeoff.
The pilot requested the air traffic control tower to make an emergency landing – the control tower informed the operations room to activate the airport’s emergency plan to take the necessary precautionary measures.
The relevant authorities working at the airport coordinated, and a crisis management room was immediately formed in preparation with the mobile operations center and the presence of fire and rescue vehicles as all the necessary supplies were dispatched.
