An Aeroflot plane made an emergency landing at Tashkent Airport.

A plane from the Russian airline "Aeroflot," operating flight SU1971 on the route from Fergana to Moscow, made an emergency landing at Tashkent airport. The reason for this was the deteriorating health of one of the passengers. The crew decided to divert to a backup airfield.

The Boeing 737 landed in the capital at 22:11 local time. After the passenger (a woman born in 1954) and her luggage were removed from the aircraft, she was hospitalized at a medical facility in Tashkent with a suspected stroke.

The plane departed for Moscow at 23:02 Tashkent time.