Sunday, September 14, 2008

Plane crash in Russia's ural kill 88,including 21 foreigner

A Boeing-737 jet crashed near the Russian city of Perm in the central Ural mountains killing all 82 passengers and six crew on board, including 21 foreigners, the jet's owner Aeroflot said Sunday."The Boeing-737 carried 82 passengers on board, including seven children, and six crew... All passengers were killed," Aeroflot said in a statement.Earlier the company denied that any foreigners were killed on flight 821 from Moscow to Perm.Footage on Russia's Vesti-24 television channel showed smoking wreckage strewn across a wooded area and investigators combing through the dark with flashlights.The female eyewitness said it was burning while still in the sky and it looked like a falling comet.

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