Ural Airlines airbus with 159 passengers onboard lands in a field in Siberia

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Russian officials say all passengers and the six crew walked away uninjured from the aircraft. It was flying from the Black Sea town of Sochi to Omsk in Siberia when it was forced to make an emergency landing.

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00:00 Passengers and crew of a Russian plane had a lucky escape when it was forced to crash land in a field in Siberia.

00:08 The Ural Airlines Airbus A320 was on a flight between the Black Sea resort of Sochi and the Siberian city of Omsk

00:15 when it came down just before 6am Moscow time.

00:19 Authorities said the plane had a technical problem and that it landed at a site selected from the air.

00:24 Officials have opened a criminal investigation on the possible violation of air traffic safety rules.

00:30 [SPLASHING]

00:33 (whooshing)

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