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21 foreigners among 88 killed in Russian plane crash
Vinay Shukla
Moscow, Sept 14 (PTI) A Russian passenger jet crashed on Sunday near the Ural Mountains in the western Perm city after one of its engines apparently caught fire as it attempted to land, killing all 88 people on board, including 21 foreigners.
The Aeroflot airlines' Boeing 737, which was on a flight from Moscow to Perm, crashed just a few metres away from the residential buildings.
One of its engines apparently caught fire while the plane
was approaching the local airport for landing around 3 a.m.
local time (4:30 a.m. I.S.T.), the media reports said.
Eyewitnesses told Vesti channel that before crashing the
ill-fated jet, glowing like a comet, tried to make an
emergency landing on the railway tracks.
All 88 people aboard -- 82 passengers and six crew
members -- died in the crash. Among those killed were 21
foreigners and seven children, the reports said.
The dead included nine from Azerbaijan, five from
Ukraine and one each from France, Germany, Italy, Latvia,
Switzerland, and Turkey. One passenger was also said to be an
American but it was not officially confirmed, they said.
"I felt an explosion, it threw me off the bed...," an
unidentified woman in Perm was quoted as saying by Vesti-24
T.V. "It (the plane) was burning while still in the sky and it
looked like a falling comet."
The debris of the plane were strewn over an area of
10,000 square metres and had blocked the world's longest
Trans-Siberian railway linking Moscow with Vladivostok in the
sector, according to the reports.
Russian emergency situations Minister Sergei Shoigu was
quoted as saying by T.V. channels that the two flight
recorders of the plane had been found and were being sent for
investigating the cause of the crash. (More) PTI VS
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Moscow, Sept 14 (PTI) A Russian passenger jet crashed on Sunday near the Ural Mountains in the western Perm city after one of its engines apparently caught fire as it attempted to land, killing all 88 people on board, including 21 foreigners.
The Aeroflot airlines' Boeing 737, which was on a flight from Moscow to Perm, crashed just a few metres away from the residential buildings.
One of its engines apparently caught fire while the plane
was approaching the local airport for landing around 3 a.m.
local time (4:30 a.m. I.S.T.), the media reports said.
Eyewitnesses told Vesti channel that before crashing the
ill-fated jet, glowing like a comet, tried to make an
emergency landing on the railway tracks.
All 88 people aboard -- 82 passengers and six crew
members -- died in the crash. Among those killed were 21
foreigners and seven children, the reports said.
The dead included nine from Azerbaijan, five from
Ukraine and one each from France, Germany, Italy, Latvia,
Switzerland, and Turkey. One passenger was also said to be an
American but it was not officially confirmed, they said.
"I felt an explosion, it threw me off the bed...," an
unidentified woman in Perm was quoted as saying by Vesti-24
T.V. "It (the plane) was burning while still in the sky and it
looked like a falling comet."
The debris of the plane were strewn over an area of
10,000 square metres and had blocked the world's longest
Trans-Siberian railway linking Moscow with Vladivostok in the
sector, according to the reports.
Russian emergency situations Minister Sergei Shoigu was
quoted as saying by T.V. channels that the two flight
recorders of the plane had been found and were being sent for
investigating the cause of the crash. (More) PTI VS
AMT
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