Russia Plane Crashes
A general Thread about Plane Crashes in Russia. What are the statistics for the number of Plane Crashes in Russia?
Debris from missing Russia military plane with 91 aboard found in Black Sea, government says
The missing include a famed military band that was on its way to Syria. The Russian Defense Ministry Ministry says rescue teams found fragments of the plane less than a mile from shore at a depth of 50 to 70 meters. The ministry said earlier that the plane disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff from the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Sunday. Ref. USAToday.
All 71 people on board a Russian airliner that crashed outside Moscow were killed, authorities say. A Russian passenger jet crashed several minutes after takeoff from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on Sunday, killing all 71 people on board, Russia's Air Transport Agency confirmed. "Fragments of the An-148 and several bodies plane have been found near the village of Stepanovskoye," the agency said in a statement released by the state-run TASS news agency. The cockpit voice recorder and parts of the fuselage also have been retrieved from the crash site, Russia's Emergencies Ministry reported. Ref. USAToday.
At least 13 people are dead after a fire broke out aboard an Aeroflot flight in Russia Sunday, Russian state news agency TASS said.
The Russian Superjet 100 was flying from Moscow to Murmansk when a fire broke out on board. Aeroflot Flight SU1492 returned to Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, making a hard landing, news agency Interfax reported.
Videos on social media show the plane engulfed in flames on the tarmac and people evacuating through emergency slides. Ref. CNN.