Moscow – At least 13 people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday when the plane caught fire mid-air and made an emergency landing at a Moscow airport on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.
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Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet-100 making an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport with much of the rear part of the plane engulfed in flames.
Many passengers then escaped via the plane’s emergency slides that inflated after the hard landing.
Medical workers told the TASS news agency at least 13 people had been killed and that others remained unaccounted for.
Russian news agencies said the plane, which had been flying from Moscow to the northern Russian city of Murmansk before turning back, had been carrying 78 passengers. It was unclear how many crew had been on board.
Russian investigators said they had opened an investigation and were looking into whether the pilots had breached air safety rules.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
The Interfax news agency reported that a rescue team was combing through the charred wreckage of the rear of the plane looking for survivors.
The Flightradar24 tracking service showed that the plane had circled twice over Moscow before making an emergency landing after about 45 minutes.
wow, there were so many yeshiva boys on the flight, yet NO mention of it in the article only seen in the video….
Weird! Doesn’t VIN think that the knowledge of yeshiva men on the flight would be of importance to the readers????
Why are bochrim on the tarmack?
It’s interesting because those people don’t look like they just escaped a burning flame. Also, what would bochurim have been doing flying to Murmansk, of all places?
Before we start posting rumors it looks to me the Bochrim were on the tarmac to catch ANOTHER flight to Israel or something. The new zman does start tomorrow and many frum do fly aeroflot. The plane in the picture is not even on fire. The fire is a good distance behind the plane.
For VIN to post a video saying frum people were on board without 100% confirming is got to be one of the stupidest piece of journalism I have seen in a bit of time.
Any update????
News sources now saying 41 dead?
Were bochurim on the flight??
Why is no one covering this?