UT271 - Incident: UTAir AT72 at Ufa on Feb 19th 2021

A UTAir Avions de Transport Regional ATR-72-212A, registration VQ-BMA performing flight UT-271 from Ufa to Samara (Russia) with 62 people on board, was climbing out of Ufa when the crew could not retract the landing gear, stopped the climb and returned to Ufa for a safe landing.

The airport reported the aircraft returned to Ufa due to the non-retraction of the landing gear.