‘Bright flash and a bang’: Pilot describes lightning strike before deadly landing of Russian passenger jet
Crew say plane struck during electrical storm lost radio communications
LIVEMET GALA 2019
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.
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