A passenger plane with an eight-member crew on board made an emergency landing at an airport near Moscow on Monday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.

All eight aboard were hospitalized after the plane, a Tu-204 flying in from Egypt, made the emergency landing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Itar-Tass said. Two of them were in grave condition.

The Moscow region's emergency department said the plane which was making a technical flight from the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada to Moscow landed about 1.5 km away from the runway.

"The airliner fell down in the woodland belt area, fell apart, but there was no fire or blast aboard the aircraft," the department's press service said.

The cause behind the emergency landing was being investigated, but bad visibility and engine failure were most likely to blame, said Itar-Tass.

Earlier media reports said the plane crashed.