Forty-one people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday after the aircraft caught fire as it made a bumpy emergency landing at a Moscow airport, Russian investigators said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Television\n footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash bouncing along the tarmac \nat Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport before the rear part of the plane \nsuddenly burst into flames.Many passengers on board SU 1492 then escaped\n via the plane’s emergency slides that inflated after the hard landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\n plane, which had been flying from Moscow to the northern Russian city \nof Murmansk, had been carrying 73 passengers and five crew members, \nRussia’s aviation watchdog said. Yelena Markovskaya, a Russia’s \nInvestigative Committee official, said in a statement that only 37 out \nof 78 people on board had survived, meaning 41 people had lost their \nlives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No official cause has been given for the disaster. The \nInvestigative Committee said it had opened an investigation and was \nlooking into whether the pilots had breached air safety rules.Some \npassengers blamed bad weather and lightning.President Vladimir Putin and\n Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed their condolences and ordered \ninvestigators to establish what had happened.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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