Moscow: At least 44 people were killed when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in heavy fog in north-western Russia, an Emergency Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The Tupolev-134 plane, carrying 43 passengers and nine crew, crashed near a road about 1 km from the runway at the Besovets airport outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk at about 1940 GMT on Monday. "The preliminary...
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