Russian emergency workers have recovered 41 bodies and two flight recorders from the wreckage of a plane that caught fire during an emergency landing in Moscow, officials said Monday as they sought to discover the cause of the disaster.
Transport Minister Yevgeny Dietrich gave the death toll and said six of the survivors had been hospitalised. The plane, an Aeroflot SSJ100, was carrying 78 people, including five crew members.
The plane caught fire Sunday evening about 6:30 p.M. As it came down hard on the runway at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after turning back from a flight destined for Murmansk. The landing occurred about a half hour after takeoff, indicating that the plane had little time to dump its fuel.
