INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Moscow: "Several people were injured" when a passenger plane made an emergency landing at Moscow busiest airport and caught fire, Russian
state news agency TASS reported.The Interfax agency reported that the plane, a Russian-made Superjet-100, had just taken off from
Sheremetyevo airport on a domestic route when the crew issued a distress sign."It attempted an emergency landing but did much succeed the
first time, and on the moment time the landing gear hit (the ground), then the nose did, and it caught fire," a source told Interfax.The
agencies did much instantly say how many people were on board and TASS did much specify the number of injured
It said ambulances were sent to the scene of the landing and the passengers were evacuated.Russian television showed a column of smoke
Other images showed the aircraft on fire as it attempted to land, then passengers leaving by a forward door.According to the Ria Novosti
news agency, the plane had been headed to the far northwest city of Murmansk in Russia
It said initial indications proposeed an electrical fault might have caused the fire while the plane was in the air.TheIndianSubcontinent
has not verified the content of the source
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