DEVELOPING: A Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger airliner landed while on fire at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday. The fire has since been extinguished, according to Russia’s emergency services ministry.
A Sukhoi Superjet 100 Aeroflot passenger airliner landed while on fire at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday.
There are still no official statements on casualties, and there are currently conflicting reports on the number of people of injured.The plane was headed to the northern Russian city of Murmansk but was forced to turn back after it took off and made an emergency landing"due to technical reasons," Aeroflot said, adding that the engine caught fire. There were 73 passengers aboard and 6 crew members.
Video shot by Norenko Mikhail, a passenger of a different plane at the airport, shows the plane in flames with passengers running to safety. Russia’s Investigative Committee, the equivalent of the FBI, has announced it is opening a criminal investigation into the incident.
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