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44 killed in plane emergency landing in N. Russia
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June 21, 2011, Tuesday
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At least 44 people were killed and eight injured when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in fog in north-western Russia, an Emergency Ministry spokeswoman said today.
The Tupolev-134 plane, carrying 52 people including nine crew, crashed near a road about 1 km (0.6 miles) from the runway at the Besovets airport outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk at about 11:40 pm local time (1940 GMT) yesterday.
The plane, en route from Moscow's Domodedovo airport to Russia's northwest city of Petrozavodsk, the administrative center of Karelie which is some 900 kms away from Moscow, came to an unscheduled ending on a highway several kilometers away from the Petrozavodsk airport.
The fuselage of the jet, belonging to the Rusaero airline, was fully destroyed and caught fire during the landing, said the news agency.
Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told RIA Novosti news agency earlier that there were 43 passengers, including eight children, and nine crew members on board and "many of them died."
Itar-Tass reported that eight people, including one 10-year-old boy, were injured in the crash and have been taken to the hospitals. Some of them are in a critical condition.
The plane blaze has already been extinguished by the time of reporting.
The investigators are currently considering all the possible causes of the crash, including human factor, an error of the cockpit crew, infractions in the performance of ground services, and an equipment failure, an official at Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said.
The Tupolev-134 plane, carrying 52 people including nine crew, crashed near a road about 1 km (0.6 miles) from the runway at the Besovets airport outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk at about 11:40 pm local time (1940 GMT) yesterday.
The plane, en route from Moscow's Domodedovo airport to Russia's northwest city of Petrozavodsk, the administrative center of Karelie which is some 900 kms away from Moscow, came to an unscheduled ending on a highway several kilometers away from the Petrozavodsk airport.
The fuselage of the jet, belonging to the Rusaero airline, was fully destroyed and caught fire during the landing, said the news agency.
Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told RIA Novosti news agency earlier that there were 43 passengers, including eight children, and nine crew members on board and "many of them died."
Itar-Tass reported that eight people, including one 10-year-old boy, were injured in the crash and have been taken to the hospitals. Some of them are in a critical condition.
The plane blaze has already been extinguished by the time of reporting.
The investigators are currently considering all the possible causes of the crash, including human factor, an error of the cockpit crew, infractions in the performance of ground services, and an equipment failure, an official at Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said.
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