The pilot who landed the plane in the field petitioned for the court to be moved to Omsk.

The former commander of the Ural Airlines aircraft, Sergey Belov, who landed the plane in a field in the Novosibirsk region in September 2023, filed a motion to postpone the trial to Omsk. This was announced on September 15 in the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of the Novosibirsk region.

"The criminal case of the emergency landing of an airline plane ""Ural Airlines in the Ubinsky district has been sent to the Eighth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction to resolve the petition of the accused Sergey Belov to change the territorial jurisdiction and transfer the criminal case to the Omsk court due to the residence in the Omsk region of the majority of victims and witnesses in the criminal case," the message says.

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