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Russian Passenger Plane With 71 Aboard Crashes Near Moscow

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A Russian passenger jet carrying 71 people has crashed near Moscow and wreckage has been found, Russian’s Emergencies Ministry said Sunday.

The Saratov Airlines An-148 regional jet was traveling from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to the Russian city of Orsk, about 1,000 miles to the southeast. Minutes after take-off, the plane slipped from radar coverage and crashed in Ramenskoye area about 25 miles from the airport.

All 65 passengers and six crew members were killed in the crash, according to Russian state media TASS, that cited a source from the emergency services ministry. The 7-year-old Anotov An-148 plane went down just 5 minutes after takeoff, according to the flight tracking service Flightradar24.

Saratov Airlines flight #6W703 has crashed about 5-6 minutes after take off from Domodedovo Airport in Moscow.

During the last seconds before it crashed the aircraft was falling with up to 22,000 feet per minute.

The aircraft involved was a 7 year old Antonov An-148. pic.twitter.com/0ENfhyI9Ts

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) February 11, 2018

Russian airlines have suffered two major plane crashes in recent years. A Tu-154 miitary transport crashed into the Black Sea in 2016, killing all 92 people aboard in a disaster blamed on pilot error. A Russian Airbus A321 carrying tourists exploded after taking off from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in 2015. All 224 people aboard were killed in the explosion that was caused by a bomb placed in the plane by Islamic State terrorists.

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