MOSCOW — Forty-one people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday, including two children, after the aircraft caught fire as it made a bumpy emergency landing at a Moscow airport, Russian investigators said. Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash bouncing along the tarmac at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport before the rear part of the plane suddenly burst into flames. Many passengers on board SU 1492 then escaped via the plane’s emergency slides that inflated after the hard landing. A Sukhoi Superjet crashed in Indonesia in 2012, killing all 45 people on board in an accident blamed on human error. Russian officials said on Sunday it was premature to talk of grounding the Sukhoi Superjet for now.

Source: Huffington Post May 06, 2019 02:37 UTC