Forty-one people were killed when a Russian passenger plane made a fiery crash-landing Sunday at a Moscow airport, said Elena Markovskaya, a member of the country’s Investigative Committee.

Two children are among the dead, according to the committee.

The Russian Superjet 100 was flying from Moscow to Murmansk when a fire broke out on board. Aeroflot Flight SU1492 returned to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, making a hard landing, news agency Interfax reported.

Thirty-seven people survived, Markovskaya told reporters at Sheremetyevo Airport. Five survivors are hospitalized, she said.

The plane had 73 passengers and five crew members on board. Russian state news agency TASS reported.

Videos on social media show the plane engulfed in flames on the tarmac and people evacuating through emergency slides.

A passenger in a plane waiting to depart Moscow posted this video on Instagram.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been informed of the fiery emergency landing of the Aeroflot jet in Moscow and has ordered a “thorough investigation,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told TASS.

“All instructions have been given to conduct the most thorough investigation, [to carry out] the necessary orders to find out the cause of this accident,” said Peskov, according to TASS.

Aeroflot, the unofficial national airline of Russia, confirmed that the fire occurred but hasn’t commented yet on casualties.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal probe into the incident, it said on its website. The committee routinely conducts investigations into major incidents with loss of life.

More via https://mandynews.com/41-killed-after-russian-airplane-catches-fire-photos-video/

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Mother Russia

Oh God Please What's This Again
Rest In Peace

So sad...

I know some persons go still call out Buhari o

Nigerians need help...

Unlike here..
Heads will SURELY roll!

2019 and stories of death. God save us

Omg

Damn....The rescue team really tried

RIP to d departed

everything is coming to an end.

very unfortunate, may their souls find peace, Amen. Quick recovery for those hospitalized.

The same thing happened to Sosoliso carrying those school children. If only there were emergency fire services available, some of those children would have survived. In Nigeria our response to emergency is almost non existent. How sad.

So sad

Rollbond123:
See below

Now I doubt your health, go and see your doctor.

God have mercy on us.

Buhari sef.

Mayhem always occur in Europe whenever he goes visiting.

Rip

America must be so happy about this news that they will call a party. Lol
RIP to the dead

RIP to d dead.

Is it a Boeing?

AjalaDtraveller:
The same thing happened to Sosoliso carrying those school children. If only there were emergency fire services available, some of those children would have survived. In Nigeria our response to emergency is almost non existent. How sad.

Na Fani Kayode the idiot that always open his gutter mouth be the minister of Aviation then. He don forgot say he was once in government with nothing to show.

EmekaBlue:
Damn....The rescue team really tried
RIP to d departed

Not Like Our Own Here

Hope is not Boeing?

that why I am afraid of aeroplane

SaintLucia:
Na Fani Kayode the idiot that always open his gutter mouth be the minister of Aviation then. He don forgot say he was once in government with nothing to show.

Hahahahahaha

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TERRORISM