STPETERSBURG, Russia - A Russian passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames on a highway in northwestern Russia, killing 44 people, officials said. Eight people survived.
The Tu-134 plane, belonging to the RusAir airline, had taken off from Moscow and was moments from landing at the airport of Petrozavodsk when it slammed into the highway just before midnight on Monday, said Emergencies Ministry spokeswoman Oksana Semyonova.
The ministry said in a statement on its website that 44 people were killed, including four with dual US and Russian citizenship.
Semyonova said the plane slammed into the ground about 100 meters from a small village, but no casualties were reported on the ground.
Petrozavodsk is in Karelia, near the Finnish border, about 640 kilometers northwest of Moscow.
Russia's top investigative agency said bad weather, human error or a technical malfunction might have contributed to the crash.
A 9-year-old boy and his teenage sister were among eight people who survived the crash, the ministry said.
Anton Terekhin and his 14-year-old sister Anastasia Terekhina are being treated for severe injuries in hospital in Petrozavodsk.
The brother and sister feature on a list of survivors published by the Karelia branch of the emergencies ministry on its website. They are registered as residents of the Pacific island of Sakhalin.
A spokeswoman confirmed that the two were in hospital but that their mother Oksana was killed in the crash. A stewardess, named as Yulia Skvortsova, 23, also survived, the only one of the plane's crew who was not killed.
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The Tu-134 plane, belonging to the RusAir airline, had taken off from Moscow and was moments from landing at the airport of Petrozavodsk when it slammed into the highway just before midnight on Monday, said Emergencies Ministry spokeswoman Oksana Semyonova.
The ministry said in a statement on its website that 44 people were killed, including four with dual US and Russian citizenship.
Semyonova said the plane slammed into the ground about 100 meters from a small village, but no casualties were reported on the ground.
Petrozavodsk is in Karelia, near the Finnish border, about 640 kilometers northwest of Moscow.
Russia's top investigative agency said bad weather, human error or a technical malfunction might have contributed to the crash.
A 9-year-old boy and his teenage sister were among eight people who survived the crash, the ministry said.
Anton Terekhin and his 14-year-old sister Anastasia Terekhina are being treated for severe injuries in hospital in Petrozavodsk.
The brother and sister feature on a list of survivors published by the Karelia branch of the emergencies ministry on its website. They are registered as residents of the Pacific island of Sakhalin.
A spokeswoman confirmed that the two were in hospital but that their mother Oksana was killed in the crash. A stewardess, named as Yulia Skvortsova, 23, also survived, the only one of the plane's crew who was not killed.
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