Russia’s Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement the Aeroflot plane, travelling from Surgut in western Siberia to Moscow, “changed course at the demand of one of the passengers”.
“The aircraft commander decided to land the plane in Khanty Mansiysk,” a city 2,700km east of Moscow, the committee said.
Passenger detained after demanding Russian plane change course WATCH
The passenger on a commercial airliner that was flying to Moscow from Siberia has been detained by law enforcement after he forced the plane to make an unplanned landing in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian investigators said on Tuesday.
The passenger tried to break into the cockpit during the flight and demanded the plane change course, they said in a statement. He was drunk, it added.
Russian news agency Interfax quoted aviation sources as saying a man had demanded the plane be diverted to Afghanistan.