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Dozens Killed After Russian Plane Catches Fire While Landing

The Irish Times

At least 41 people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed when it caught fire while making an emergency landing at a Moscow airport on Sunday, Al Jazeera reports. 

Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet-100 making the crash landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport with much of the rear part of the plane engulfed in flames. The harrowing video showed passengers leaping from the front of the burning plane onto an inflatable slide and staggering across tarmac and grass.

At least two children were among the dead, Russian investigators were cited by the Interfax news agency as saying.

Another 11 people were injured, said Dmitry Matveyev, the Moscow region's health minister. Three were hospitalised but they were not in a serious condition.


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