At least 13 people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday when the plane caught fire mid-air and made an emergency landing.
The Russian-made Superjet-100 had just taken off from Sheremetyevo airport on a domestic route when the crew issued a distress signal.MOSCOW - At least 13 people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday whenat a Moscow airport on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.
Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet-100 making an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport with much of the rear part of the plane engulfed in flames.Medical workers told the TASS news agency at least 13 people had been killed and that others remained unaccounted for.Russian news agencies said the plane, which had been flying from Moscow to the northern Russian city of Murmansk before turning back, had been carrying 78 passengers.
Russian investigators said they had opened an investigation and were looking into whether the pilots had breached air safety rules.The Interfax news agency reported that a rescue team was combing through the charred wreckage of the rear of the plane looking for survivors. The Flightradar24 tracking service showed that the plane had circled twice over Moscow before making an emergency landing after about 45 minutes
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