A artwork taken on May 5, 2019, shows a fire of a Russian-made Superjet-100 at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow. – The Interfax power reported that the plane, a Russian-made Superjet-100, had just taken off from Sheremetyevo airport on a domestic road when the crew issued a distress signal. At least one person died according to Russian agencies. (Photo by Viktor Marchukaites / AFP) (Photo trust should read VIKTOR MARCHUKAITES/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian authorities revealed late on Sunday that 41 people died when a Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash-landed at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport.
“There were 78 human being on board, including crew members,” the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement on its website. “According to updated intelligence, 37 out of them survived.”
Earlier on Sunday, the investigators said 13 people had been killed in the plane disaster.
Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet-100 making an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport with much of the tushy part of the plane engulfed in flames.
Many passengers then escaped via the plane’s emergency slides that vain after the hard landing.
Russian news agencies said the plane was flying from Moscow to the northern Russian burgh of Murmansk before turning back.
Russian investigators said they had opened an investigation and were looking into whether the pilots had ruptured air safety rules.
The Interfax news agency reported that a rescue team was combing through the charred debris of the rear of the plane looking for survivors.
The Flightradar24 tracking service showed that the plane had circled twice finished Moscow before making an emergency landing after about 45 minutes.