Scores of people were killed on Sunday after a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing at a Moscow airport and caught fire. Photo: AFPMOSCOW—Russian officials on Monday were busy examining the black boxes and flight data recovered from the wreckage of a passenger jet that caught fire and killed 41 people at Moscow’s busiest airport. A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft carrying 73 passengers and five crew members caught on fire after making an emergency landing on Sunday evening. The plane, operated by Aeroflot, Russia’s flagship carrier and largest airline, was bound from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for the northwest Russian city of Murmansk.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 06, 2019 09:56 UTC