MOSCOW (Reuters) - 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. ON FIRE: Video captured the moment a 78 passenger plane made an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport in Khimki, Russia, after catching on fire. Many passengers on board SU 1492 then escaped via the plane’s emergency slides that inflated after the hard landing. The plane, which had been flying from Moscow to the northern Russian city of Murmansk, had been carrying 73 passengers and five crew members, Russia’s aviation watchdog said. “We took off and then lightning struck the plane,” the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily cited one surviving passenger, Pyotr Egorov, as saying.

Source: Huffington Post May 05, 2019 19:11 UTC