Forty-one people including at least two children are believed to have died when a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and was engulfed in flames at Moscow's busiest airport Sunday, investigators said.
"There were 78 people including crew members on board the plane," the Investigative Committee said in a statement, adding it had headed to the northwest Russian city of Murmansk.Another 11 people were injured, Dmitry Matveyev, the Moscow region's health minister said earlier in the day. Three of them had been hospitalised but they were not in a serious condition, he added.
The tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted one passenger, Petr Egorov, who said:"We had just taken off and the aircraft was hit by lightning.... The landing was rough, I almost passed out from fear.""It attempted an emergency landing but did not succeed the first time, and on the second time the landing gear hit , then the nose did, and it caught fire," the source added.
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