A Boeing 737, carrying 173 people, is circling in the sky to prepare for an emergency landing in Siberia due to a crack in the windshield of the cockpit, the TAS news agency reported.
TASS quoted sources as saying the plane was on a flight from the Russian city of Novosibirsk to Sanya in southern China.
She noted that the crew noticed a crack in the windshield, making it decide to make a forced landing at Krasnoyarsk airport.
The plane is currently flying over the airport "to reduce fuel before landing."
The spokesman for the local prosecutor's office told the media that the crew had decided to land after receiving a "technical problem", adding that fire trucks and ambulances were on their way to the airport.
