A Russian passenger aircraft crashed on Sunday near Moscow, killing all 71 people on board.
The Russian-built AN-148, a flight of Saratov Airlines from the capital to Orsk, a city in the Ural mountain range 1,500km from Moscow, disappeared from the radar minutes after take-off from Domodedovo, one of Moscow’s three international airports, at 2.12pm, the company said. It added that 65 passengers and six crew were on board.
“According to preliminary information, nobody survived,” the Kremlin said. The emergency ministry said in the early evening that only two bodies had been found so far, but Russian news agencies quoted rescue workers as saying that a large number of bodies and body parts had been discovered at the crash site.