A Russian airliner crashed after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport
on Sunday, killing all 65 passengers and six crew on board, according to
reports.
The
Saratov Airlines jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near
the village of Argunovo, about 80 kilometres south-east of Moscow.
The cause of crash is unclear. Investigators and emergency crews are working at the snow-covered site.
The Antonov An-148 was
en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains.
Pieces
of wreckage and bodies were found spread over a large area. One of the
flight recorders has been recovered, officials reportedly said.
President
Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to the victims' families
and announced an inquiry into the cause of the crash.
The plane took off at 14:27 local time on Sunday. Contact was lost four minutes later.
Flight-tracking site Flightradar24 said it then descended at the rate of 1,000m per minute.
Eyewitnesses told Russian media that the jet was on fire as it plummeted.
Investigators
reportedly said the causes they were considering included weather
conditions, human error and technical failure - but they did not mention
the possibility of terrorism.
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