Thirteen people, including two children, are dead after an Aeroflot passenger plane made a fiery emergency landing in Moscow on Sunday, Russian authorities said. In a statement, the country's state-run Investigation Committee did not provide additional details about the victims, but said authorities would soon begin interviewing witnesses, airline workers and staff at Sheremetyevo Airport to determine why the emergency landing occurred.
The committee later said that thirty-seven people survived the accident. There had been seventy-three passengers and five crew members on board the Sukhoi Superjet-100. The status of the remaining forty-one people wasn't immediately clear. In a statement, the airport said the flight had taken off just after six p.m. local time for the northern city of Murmansk, but returned to Sheremetyevo after the crew reported an unspecified "malfunction."
A half hour later, the jet made a "hard landing" that caused the fire, the statement said. The aircraft tracking service Flightradar24 said that just minutes after takeoff, the jet reported a communications failure. A few minutes before landing, that failure was changes to a general emergency, the site reported. Dramatic video from the scene showed the aircraft barreling down the runway engulfed in flames and passengers leaping from the wreckage onto an inflatable slide.
One apparent passenger captured video showing people clinging to their luggage as emergency vehicles sped toward the jet. Writing on Instagram, the person said that he'd managed to jump out of the plane and was "alive and safe."
The airline said the evacuation was carried out in 55 seconds. The crew "did everything to save the passengers," Aeroflot said in a statement.
Link:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/burning-aeroflot-plane-lands-moscow-injuries-reported-n1002161
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