More than 70 people are feared dead after a Russian airliner crashed near Moscow this afternoon.
Emergency services reportedly told Russian news agencies that all 71 people on board were killed in the incident.
The plane, operated by Russia’s Saratov Airlines, went missing from radars less than 10 minutes after taking off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, TASS reported.
There were 65 passengers and six crew members onboard the plane, which was bound for the Russian city of Orsk in the Orenburg region that borders Kazakhstan, according to Reuters.
“Debris has been found, there are no survivors,” TASS quoted a source as saying.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash.
The Russian Transport Ministry was considering various possible reasons, including weather conditions and a pilot error, news agency Interfax said.
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