a russian airline utair  boeing 737 plane, carrying 78 passengers plus crew,  has requested an emergency landing at the pulkovo airport in st petersburg, the company and a russian aviation source said on  wednesday the source said one of the plane's engines had failed and  that the plane had been due to land at 12:25 pm (0925 gmt) the emergency landing was carried out 'after the transmitter went off, signalling the right engine's failure', a source told ria novosti news agency russia's emergencies ministry said it could not immediately  comment near miss: the flight path of the russian boeing 737 that carried out an emergency landing at st petersburg's pulkovo airport after the starboard engine reportedly cut out  fear: a boeng 737 similar to the aircraft pictured, but belonging to the utair airline rather than hainan airlines, has requested an emergency landing at russia's pulkovo airport inst petersburg 
st petersburg's pulkovo germanwings alps
the emergency landing occurred at st petersburg's pulkovo airport . the plane's starboard engine had reportedly failed . the flight had been due to land at 0925 gmt . this follows the tragic crash of a germanwings plane in the alps 