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Old 28th Jul 2002, 12:59
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Russian airliner cargo plane crashes

Plane goes down at Moscow airport; casualties unclear


MSNBC NEWS SERVICES

MOSCOW, July 28 — A Russian Il-86 cargo plane with up to 16 crew members aboard crashed Sunday while taking off from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo-1 airport, the Emergencies Ministry said. The number of casualties was not immediately clear.
RUSSIAN AIR POLICE said there were only two survivors from the crash.
Russian news media, meanwhile, reported that all of those aboard were killed.
The cargo plane was on its way from Moscow to St. Petersburg on a technical flight. The jet crashed while taking off and plunged into a nearby forest, barely missing the busy Dmitrov highway northwest of the capital.
The highway was busy, as many Muscovites were on their way back into the city from their country homes at the end of a hot summer weekend.
The aircraft belonged to the Pulkovsky airlines, which flies between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
“The Ilyushin 86 plane that crashed was carrying 16 people on board — four flight crew and 12 air stewards,” Emergencies Ministry spokeswoman Marina Ryklina told Reuters.
“We don’t know if there are any survivors, but the ministry rescue teams have gone to the scene and are most likely already working there,” she said.
A correspondent for Russia’s NTV television said the plane was on fire, and that the aircraft had been cordoned off by police. NTV said the plane had crashed nose down, burst into flames and that a huge plume of smoke was visible.
The Interfax news agency said the plane went down at 3:25 p.m. (6:25 a.m. ET).
The Il-86 is Russia’s main long-distance airliner, and the first wide-body commercial aircraft built in the Soviet Union.
The incident came a day after 83 people died when a military jet crashed at an air show in Lviv in Ukraine, and a month after 71 people died when a Tupolev Tu-154 carrying Russian children to a holiday in Spain collided over the Swiss-German border with a cargo plane.
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