09-15-2008, 03:47 AM
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88 Die in Russian plane crash
Plane crash in Russia
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A Russian airliner that crashed near a city in the Urals, killing all 88 people on board, caught fire in mid-air, reports say.
The Boeing-737-500, belonging to a branch of the national airline Aeroflot, was on a flight from Moscow to Perm, near the Ural mountains.
Twenty-one foreign passengers were on board the Aeroflot Nord flight.
Radio contact with the plane was lost as it was landing. One witness said it looked like a comet as it came down.
"It looked like a... burning comet. It hit the ground opposite the next house, there was a blaze, like fireworks, it lit the whole sky, the blaze," the witness told Russian TV...
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Those killed include Gen Gennady Troshev, a former commander of Russian forces in Chechnya and military advisor to former Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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