A plane carrying passengers from Prague to Skopje, which also included Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Poposki, early on Saturday was forced to make an emergency landing at Alexander the Great airport.

After circling over the Skopje airport for 40 minutes, the captain of Boeing 737-700 by the Czech airline CSA reported a technical problem with the wings, due to which the jet had to perform a forced landing.

The crew then demonstrated basic measures used during forced landing.

As the plane was landing, smoke appeared from the tyres and the captain managed to stop the aircraft right at the end of the runway.

Firefighting vehicles and ambulances were on standby at the side of the runway. All passengers, including EP rapporteur on Macedonia Richar Howitt and two media crews touched down safely.

Airport's concessioner TAV Macedonia said that the CSA aircraft has developed technical problems forcing the captain to make an emergency landing.

"There was no incident during the landing and there are no consequences," TAV Macedonia informed.