MOSCOW, Feb. 15 -- An Air France's Boeing 737 plane carrying over 300 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing Sunday in Russian city of Yekaterinburg, Tass news agency reported.

The landing was safe and successful, and experts are considering further actions, head of the Koltsovo airport's strategic communications department Dmitry Tyukhtin said.

According to the report, the airplane was en route from Seoul to Paris and the emergency happened due to an engine failure.