Cockpit depressurization forces Moscow-Orenburg plane to return

The reason for the return of the Moscow-Orenburg flight to the airport was the depressurization of the pilot's cabin, Report informs via TASS.

"The plane’s cockpit depressurized, it descended and is about to land at Sheremetyevo," the agency’s interlocutor said.

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A Nordwind airline plane flying from Moscow to Orenburg disappeared from the radars of the Flightradar24 service, as evidenced by the portal data.

Report informs via the Russian media that the plane earlier the plane gave an emergency signal and turned towards Moscow over the Nizhny Novgorod region.

According to the Mash Telegram channel, the plane was flying at low altitude towards the airport before disappearing.

According to Flightradar24, the passenger plane sounded an alarm and turned around. It spent 30 minutes in flight. The plane dropped to an altitude of 3,000 meters.