The Tupolev was en route at cruise altitude when the failure occurred, which disabled the fuel system and all navigational and radio equipment, meaning that the aircraft would not have been able to reach its destination.

The crew of Flight 514 were subsequently decorated for their actions, and the aircraft was successfully repaired and flown out of the airfield to resume service with Alrosa.

[1] Flight 514 was over Usinsk,[2] at an altitude of 10,600 metres (34,800 ft) (FL 348) when the first signs of a problem were noticed at about 06:59 local time (02:59 UTC).

The aircraft landed at a speed of 350 to 380 kilometres per hour (190 to 210 kn; 220 to 240 mph), faster than normal, due to the lack of flaps.

[4] After evacuating the aircraft and while awaiting rescue, some of the passengers searched for mushrooms, a popular pastime in Russia.

[6] The survivors were temporarily housed in a sports complex at Izhma, due to a lack of hotel space locally.

[2] Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin met the crew and thanked them for their "heroic, decisive and professional actions" in the accident.

[3] The pilots of Flight 514, Captain Yevgeny Novoselov and First Officer Andrei Lamanov,[10] were made Heroes of the Russian Federation.

Test pilots from the Russian State Scientific Research Institute of Civil Aviation (GosNII GA) were selected to fly the jet out of the airfield.

Lamanov, the first officer on the accident flight, was at the controls as pilot in command, and was met on arrival on the ground by captain Novoselov.