Plane crash in Russia kills all 50 on board

Mike Gallagher

Nov 17, 2013 - 14:46

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Plane crash in Russia kills all 50 on board

A screen grab from a Life News report, showing an image believed to have been taken at the scene of a plane crash in Kazan.

A RUSSIAN passenger has crashed while trying to land at the airport in the city of Kazan and officials said all 50 people aboard were killed.

The Boeing 737 belonging to Tatarstan Airlines, which took off from Moscow, crashed at Kazan airport at 7.25pm (2.25am AEDT), the ministry's local branch said in a statement.

A spokeswoman for the Emergencies Ministry, Irina Rossius, said there were 44 passengers and six crew members aboard and all had been killed.

The Tatarstan Airlines plane, arriving from Moscow's Domodedovo airport \"hit the runway and burst into flames\", Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.

Local news agencies reported the plane had tried to land three times before crashing.

There were no immediate indications of what may have caused the crash. Weather in the city soon after the crash was reported to be light precipitation and winds of about 8 metres per second

Kazan is about 720 kilometres east of Moscow.