Ural Airlines passenger died on the flight heading from Moscow to the Tajik city of Kulob.
Telegram-channel Aviatorshchina reports that the flight was heading from Moscow to Kulob in the evening of March 18 when a man fell ill.
The flight attendants tried to help the man, but he was getting worse.
“The situation was reported to the aircraft commander and he decided to proceed to an unscheduled landing at Kurumoch airport in the city of Smara, Russia,” says Aviatorshchina.
After landing, the resuscitation team began to provide assistance, but to no avail; the passenger died.
The passenger details are not disclosed.
The plane reportedly took off for Tajikistan two hours later.
Ural Airlines is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s Sverdlovsk Oblast. It operates scheduled and chartered domestic and international flights out of Koltsovo International Airport.
The airline was founded in 1943 as Sverdlovsk State Air Enterprises, and later became part of Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline, being in charge of Yekaterinburg Airport. Following the split-up of Aeroflot, Ural Airlines became a joint stock company incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation on December 28, 1993, and the airline business was separated from the airport.
Currently, the main hubs of Ural Airlines are Moscow-Domodedovo and Yekaterinburg. Ural Airlines has plans to increase its number of hubs, by developing hubs at Moscow-Sheremetyevo and Moscow-Zhukovsky.
