Russian prosecutors launch an investigation into what caused the crash of an Aeroflot flight that killed at least 41 people
This handout picture taken and realeased on May 5, 2019 by the Investigative Committee of Russia shows a fire of a Russian-made Superjet-100 at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow.
"There were 78 people on board, including crew members," the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement on its website.Earlier on Sunday, the investigators said 13 people had been killed in the plane crash. Investigators have started trying to piece together why the Aeroflot jet, which had been flying from Moscow to the northern Russian city of Murmansk on Sunday, was forced to make an emergency landing and why that landing went so badly wrong.
Asked by reporters at a news conference if the Sukhoi planes should now be grounded pending the outcome of the investigation, Yevgeny Ditrikh, Russia’s transport minister, said:Many passengers then escaped via the plane's emergency slides that inflated after the hard landing.
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