Pilots returned to Sheremetyevo and made a safe landing after ten minutes in the air.

Passengers were provided an alternative flight.

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The pilots made an emergency landing at Krasnodar International Airport. There were no injuries.

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What: Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 en route from Moscow to Astrakhan
Where: Moscow
When: Mar 16th 2012
Who: 65 passengers and 4 crew
Why: After takeoff, the nose gear door did not close.

After a flyby that confirmed the problem, the flight returned to Sheremetyevo Airport and made a safe landing.

After landing, examination confirmed that the door was broken. The issue with the door involves “a known problem” “a design flaw.”

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Pilots made a safe landing in Sochi, with visible damage to the plane.

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What: Aeroflot Ilyushin IL-96 en route from Goa India to Moscow Russia
Where: Moscow
When: Feb 16th 2012
Who: 265 passengers
Why: After making a safe landing at Moscow airport, while the plane was navigating the runway, its main gear went off the snowy runway.

Passengers disembarked from the stranded plane on to terra firma via mobile stairs.

There were no injuries. The plane had to be towed, tying up the runway until it was removed.

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What: Aeroflot Airbus A319-100 en route from Nizhniy Novgorod to Moscow Sheremetyevo
Where: Moscow
When: Dec 28th 2011
Who: 76 aboard
Why: While en route, the right engine developed problems, and pilots had to shut it down.

The flight landed safely at Sheremetyevo less than a quarter hour after the engine was shut down.

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Pilots shut down the engine and returned to the airport to make a safe landing.

Passengers were rebooked on flights outgoing on Nov 16.

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What: Aeroflot Ilyushin IL-96 en route from Petropavlosvk-Kamchatsky to Moscow Sheremetyevo
Where: Russia
When: Jun 8th 2011
Who: 258 passengers and 12 crew
Why: While lining up to take-off, the plane’s nose gear departed the runway surface on to the ground. The plane had to be towed, and caused a runway to be shut down.

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