The reason for the unplanned landing on Friday morning in the Baku Airpore Airlines, flying from Paris to Singapore, was a leak of oil in one of the engines, the Singapore airline said, the newspaper The Straits Times.
“The company representative said that a leakage of oil was discovered in one of the engines … After evaluating the situation, the pilots decided to deviate from the route and land in Baku as a precaution,” the airline representative quotes.
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There were 229 passengers and 18 crew members on board the aircraft, there were no injured.
On Friday morning, the press service of the International Airport Heydar Aliyev reported that the captain of the flight Paris – Singapore of Singapore Airlines requested an emergency landing in Baku. The plane landed at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport at 6:26 local time.