Weather conditions in the Sochi Airport They did not allow an emergency landing of a passenger airliner.

As it became known, the plane was redirected from Sochi airport to Simferopol Airport. The reason for the emergency landing was fog, but as air traffic controllers of Sochi airport reported, due to poor weather conditions, the airplane was redirected to Simferopol airport. It is noted that the plane landed at the airport of the Crimean peninsula at 13 hours 22 minutes local time and is already ready to fly in its opposite direction - to Moscow.

The causes of unfavorable weather conditions at the airport in Sochi was a strong thunderstorm and gusts of wind speeds of up to 20 m / s.