December 28 2013. Nizhny Novgorod, police are looking for hooligans who deliberately wanted to dazzle the crew members landing. The incident occurred in the evening, the ship was flying from Yekaterinburg.

The pilot reported to the control room that unknown persons were sending a laser beam into the pilot's cabin. He also said that the laser was shining in the windows of the aircraft, trying to blind the cabin crew and passengers. None of the people on board was injured.