Death toll rises to 41 in Moscow plane crash
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAY 06: Various shots from debris of a Russian Aeroflot plane that left up to 41 people killed after an emergency landing in Russian capital Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on May 06, 2019. Up to 41 people were killed after a Russian Aeroflot plane made an emergency landing in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, Russian Investigative Committee said late Sunday.A Superjet-100 plane with 78 people on-board, traveling from Moscow to northern port city of Murmansk, caught fire soon after taking off and asked for an emergency landing, the Committee's spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko told reporters in Moscow.President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed their condolences to the relatives of the victims. Putin ordered a scrupulous investigation into the incident.(Footage by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
