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Russian state media agency Interfax reports that a Russian passenger plane with 71 people aboard has crashed shortly after taking off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.
It involves a domestic Russian flight flying from Moscow to Orsk in the Urals. The plane was an Antonov An-148 which was operated by Saratov Airlines.
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The jet vanished from radar screens some 6 minutes after take-off according to the airport’s control tower.
<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING NEWS - Plane in Moscow kills over 70 people. Video here. Follow for more breaking news. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/moscow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#moscow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/planecrash?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#planecrash</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/moscowplane?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#moscowplane</a> <a href="https://t.co/qeeBsOayoG">pic.twitter.com/qeeBsOayoG</a></p>— Free Competitions (@freecompsnow) <a href="https://twitter.com/freecompsnow/status/962677673746161664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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An unnamed source in the emergency services claimed that "Tentatively, the plane has crashed near the village of Argunovo,”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">‘No survivors’: Russian plane crashes with 71 people on board <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/moscow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#moscow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/planecrash?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#planecrash</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/russia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#russia</a> <a href="https://t.co/0zYDb3DUrn">https://t.co/0zYDb3DUrn</a></p>— DailyPakistan Global (@dailypakistangl) <a href="https://twitter.com/dailypakistangl/status/962672751852032001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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“The crew and passengers had no chance to survive."
TASS has been informed that several fragments of the plane have been found, adding that “no one survived."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="sv" dir="ltr">Ett ryskt passagerarflygplan av typen Antonov An-148 har störtat i en by utanför Moskva – alla 71 passagerare ombord befaras döda. <a href="https://t.co/BYbhXwQfC1">https://t.co/BYbhXwQfC1</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/planecrash?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#planecrash</a> <a href="https://t.co/0MEfLh58wc">pic.twitter.com/0MEfLh58wc</a></p>— TV4Nyheterna (@Nyheterna) <a href="https://twitter.com/Nyheterna/status/962678827116843008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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On board were sixty-five passengers and six crew.
Source:
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/962668683897090049
