Top Italian lawmaker's plane makes emergency landing in Moscow

internazionale | miscellaneous | re-imbucato da altri media sabato 30 maggio, 2009 04:46 by yuri

ROME, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - A plane carrying Italy's parliamentary speaker was forced to make an emergency landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, Corriere della Serra said on Friday. The Airbus 319, which had taken off from a Moscow airport several minutes earlier, had to land due to a fuel leak.

Renato Schifani was returning to Italy after an official visit to Russia. He is currently waiting for a replacement plane to take him back to Italy.

Airport officials declined to make a comment on the report.