MOSCOW, November 3./TASS/. Russia’s Aeroflot flagship carrier has replaced an A321 passenger airliner as it was about to take off from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport to St. Petersburg because of a technical fault, an airport source has told TASS.
A technical fault was detected when plane’s engines were started before a takeoff at 6:40 am Moscow time, the source said. "Passengers were removed from the plane which was replaced with another airliner," he added.
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