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A plane from London Heathrow with 311 people on board has been forced to make an emergency landing in Russia within the eary hours of this morning.
The Boeing 777-39L(ER) is known to have suffered engine failure and requested landing at Nizhnevartovsk in Siberia.
It continues to be unclear what number of British residents there are on board the Air China flight, but the present Foreign Office travel advice is to avoid trips to Russia in any respect cost amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Metro has contacted the Foreign Office for an announcement.
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