Russian Plane Carrying 71 Crashes With No Survivors
25 views · Published 12 February 2018 · 1:20 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: 7Edition · 2018 · News & Politics
A Russian plane has crashed killing all 71 on board as traumatised witnesses described seeing a huge “mushroom cloud explosion” mid-air. The Saratov Airlines jet is understood to have "broken apart in the sky", scattering wreckage and dead bodies over the Russian countryside. Authorities said rescuers have arrived at the site and found two bodies from the crashed plane. The ill-fated plane, an Antonov AN148 jet, was on its way to Orsk near the southern Russian border with Kazakhstan. Trackers showed that it had reached an altitude of around 2,000 metre but less than 10 minutes after take-off it suddenly vanished from air traffic control radars. The Russian transport ministry said it was considering a number of possible causes including weather conditions and pilot error. But there is no suggestion that the incident is a terror-related incident. Russian news site gazeta.ru claimed that the wreckage of a Russian post helicopter had also been found at the site, suggesting that it had collided with the plane just before the crash.
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