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Contact lost with passenger plane in Russia's Far East
AFP, Published on 06/07/2021
» MOSCOW: Contact has been lost with a passenger plane carrying more than two dozen people in Russia's remote Far Eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, local officials said Tuesday.
Russia probes pilot error after deadly plane blaze
AFP, Published on 07/05/2019
» MOSCOW - Russian investigators were on Tuesday considering pilot error as the cause of a crash-landing that saw a plane erupt in flames at Moscow's busiest airport and kill 41 people, media reported.
Pilot says lightning caused deadly Russian crash landing
AFP, Published on 06/05/2019
» MOSCOW - The pilot of a Russian passenger plane that erupted in a ball of fire on the runway of Moscow's busiest airport, killing 41 people, said lightning led to the emergency landing.
Sukhoi Superjet 100: chequered past of Russian aviation hope
AFP, Published on 06/05/2019
» MOSCOW - Russia's Sukhoi Superjet 100 was the country's first post-Soviet passenger plane and intended to revive the civil aviation industry but it was dogged with problems from the start.
Pilot says lightning caused deadly Russian crash landing
AFP, Published on 06/05/2019
» MOSCOW: The pilot of a Russian passenger plane that erupted in a ball of fire on the runway of Moscow's busiest airport, killing 41 people, said lightning led to the emergency landing.
Death toll in fiery Russian plane crash rises to 41
AFP, Published on 06/05/2019
» Forty-one people, including at least two children, were killed after a Russian passenger plane erupted in a huge ball of fire and black smoke following an emergency landing at Moscow's busiest airport.
At least 13 dead in Moscow plane blaze: Russian agencies
AFP, Published on 06/05/2019
» MOSCOW - At least 13 people died Sunday after a passenger plane on fire attempted an emergency landing at Moscow's busiest airport as flames and thick black smoke poured from the fuselage, Russian news agencies reported.