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MOSCOW – A Rossiya Airlines Boeing 777 cargo plane made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on Friday due to an issue with an engine control sensor, the airline said.
The plane was a 15-year-old 777-300ER, according to flight tracking website Flightradar24, which means it is fitted with General Electric engines.
These are different from the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines under control after an engine fire aboard a United Airlines 777 on Saturday that resulted in the suspension of operations involving planes using these engines.
General Electric did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Russian airlines operate Boeing 777-300ERs equipped with General Electric GE90-115B engines, the federal aviation agency Rosaviatsiya said on Wednesday, adding that it did not consider suspending the operation of the planes.
Rossiya Airlines flight 4520, traveling from Hong Kong to Madrid, landed in Moscow, according to data from Flightradar24.
Rossiya Airlines, a unit of Russian airline Aeroflot, said the crew requested landing at the airline’s Moscow base airport.
“The landing went smoothly,” Rossiya said in a statement, adding that the flight would continue to Madrid on Friday.
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