A plane carrying 52 people in northern Russia crashed late on Monday night, with many of the passengers feared dead.
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At least 44 people were killed when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in heavy fog in north-western Russia Photo: REUTERS
The Tupolev-134 was travelling from Moscow to the northern Russian city of Petrozavodsk when it crashed just before midnight. It was carrying 43 passengers and nine crew.
Eyewitnesses said that the plane broke up and caught fire on landing.
"Preliminary information is that about 40 are dead. The other eight are in hospital," said a spokesman for the Russian Emergency Ministry. Later the death toll was revised up to 44.
Local news agencies reported that a Swedish national and Russian Premier League soccer referee Vladimir Pettay were among the dead.
Officials said the plane crash landed in a field, nine miles away from the airport. As it came down it narrowly missed houses built close to a motorway. Photographs from the scene showed firemen battling with fires among the wreckage of the plane.
Source : The Telegraph
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