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Dozens of people are dead after a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and erupted in a huge ball of fire and smoke at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
Aeroflot says the Superjet-100 had to return to the airport "due to a technical reason" and its engines caught fire upon landing.
Forty-one people including at least two children are known to have died
Passengers could be seen leaping onto an inflatable slide at the front and running from the blazing plane as huge black columns of smoke billowed into the sky.
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The plane, an Aeroflot SSJ100, was carrying 78 people, including five crew members.
NEWS.YAHOO.COM
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian airliner that took off from Moscow was airborne for just 28 minutes before returning to make an emergency landing while still heavy with unburned fuel, which then ignited after a rough touchdown.
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