Forty-one people including at least two children are believed to have died when a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and was engulfed in flames at Moscow’s busiest airport Sunday, investigators said. “There were 78 people including crew members on board the plane,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement, adding it had headed to the northwest Russian city of Murmansk. At 6:30 pm, the aircraft made an emergency landing,” it added. Several flights have been diverted to other Moscow airports or Nizhny Novgorod, some 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the Russian capital. The Russian government offered subsidies to encourage Russian airlines to buy the Superjet and Aeroflot became its main operator.

Source: Hindustan Times May 05, 2019 16:36 UTC