At least 41 people were killed after a Russian Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet burst into flames while attempting an emergency landing at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport on May 5th.
The
plane, which had been flying from Moscow to the northern Russian city of
Murmansk, had been carrying 73 passengers and five crew members.
Svetlana Petrenko, a
spokesperson for Russia's Investigative Committee, said in a statement that
only 37 out of 78 people on board had survived, meaning 41 people had lost
their lives.
No official cause has yet
been given for the incident although some surviving passengers spoke of a
lightning strike.
"We took off and then
lightning struck the plane," the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily cited one
surviving passenger, Pyotr Egorov, as saying.
President Vladimir Putin and
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed their condolences and ordered
investigators to establish what had happened./.
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