Forty-one people were killed Sunday when a Russian passenger jet making an emergency landing in Moscow touched down and burst into flames. Forty-one people were killed after an Aeroflot passenger plane burst into flames at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday. (Russian Investigative Committee/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)“I survived thanks to the stewardesses,” passenger Dmitry Khlebushkin told Russian news reporters at the airport. Recent years have seen a surge in the number of Russian air travelers and substantial investment by carriers in new aircraft. Russian jet crashes have not been limited to commercial carriers.

Source: Washington Post May 05, 2019 18:22 UTC