Airliner Red Wings, flying from Ufa to Sochi, returned to the airport of departure because of the burning left engine. Passengers told the story of salvation. One of them said that after the take-off, nothing predicted a state of emergency. Five minutes later, there was a "some cotton and right on the right, we were sitting near the turbine, the sparks went and it began to catch fire". He added that it was scary, but they announced that "everything is under control, now we will sit down". Women reacted to the incident more emotionally.

One of them shared with the TV channel "Zvezda" that after the explosion behind the porthole "Everyone shouted:" We're burning ". The smoke went ". According to her, after boarding some passengers crowded at the door, hysteria began. "There's a tempter at the door!" Of course, there were hysterics.

We cried all, shouted. But not to such an extent that they squeezed each other, "she said, stressing," scary, of course! ". On board the lighted Tu-204 there were 202 passengers. They were evacuated by means of inflatable gangways seven minutes after landing.