MOSCOW, Sept 14 (AFP): A Boeing-737 jet crashed near Russia's city of Perm in the central Ural mountains killing all 83 passengers and five crew on board, Russian news agencies reported Sunday quoting emergency ministry officials.
"According to the latest information, the airplane fell into a ravine near the city limits. There were 82 passengers plus a baby and five crew on board, and by preliminary information, they are all dead," investigator Vladimir Markin told the RIA Novosti news agency.
"The Trans-Siberian Railway was damaged due to the accident," Markin said.
"The airplane caught fire and exploded, and in circumstances like that there is no hope that anyone could have survived," Interfax quoted emergency ministry officials as saying.
"The airplane took off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport at 0112 Sunday (2112 Saturday GMT), but as it was landing, at the height of 1,800 meters we lost contact with it," the ministry's spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said earlier as quoted by Interfax.
A total of seven children, including a baby, were on board, the spokesman for Russia's leading Aeroflot airline company, which owned the jet, said.
88 killed in Russia airplane crash
FE Team | Published: September 15, 2008 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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