Scores feared dead in Russian plane crash
Scores feared dead in Russian plane crash
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Sunday, 09, Jul 2006 11:29
At least 120 people have been killed in an airline crash in Siberia, Russia, with more than 50 passengers suffering from severe burns currently receiving hospital treatment.
The exact cause of the plane crash has not yet been determined, but it is thought that the plane's brakes may have failed, with many children feared dead on the Moscow to Irkutsk flight, which slid off the runway at 08:00 today local time (00:00 BST).
The S7 Airlines Airbus had 192 people on board in total, and it is thought that the entire crew has been killed.
The A-310 was said to have lost control as it landed, overshooting the runway in wet conditions before colliding with a concrete wall and bursting into flames as it ground to a halt in an airfield building.
Witness accounts say that people were seen jumping from the wreckage at the plane's rear as the inferno developed, which took fire-fighters more than three hours to extinguish.
Authorities say they have removed 120 bodies so far and that 53 people are being treated in hospital.
The large number of children on board the flight are believed to have been intending to visit the nearby lake Baikal, a popular tourist destination during the school summer holidays.