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Siberia plane crash kills 31

RUSSIA: Thirty-one people were killed Monday when a passenger plane crashed moments after takeoff in an oil-rich Siberian region in the latest accident to hit Russia’s crisis-prone aviation industry.

The emergencies ministry said the French-Italian made ATR-72 liner was carrying 39 passengers and four crew when it crashed 45 kilometres (28 miles) from the western Siberian city of Tyumen on a flight to the oil town of Surgut.

“Twelve people are in critical condition... Thirty-one have been killed,” the Tyumen emergencies ministry said in an updated statement after initially putting the death toll at 32.

The ATR-72 twin-engine plane was operated by UTair -- a private Russian airline that conducts most of its flights in the energy-rich regions of Western Siberia and the Ural Mountains.

The airline said in a statement that the plane came down shortly after takeoff “while conducting a forced landing 1.5 kilometres (about one mile)” outside Roshchino airport.

An airport security officer told Interfax the plane had only managed to climb to about 100 metres (yards) before it lost all communication with air traffic controllers.

“The liner’s technical problems probably emerged during takeoff and the crew tried to perform an emergency landing,” the news agency said, quoting the airport official.

UTair itself gave no immediate reason for the crash.

The Investigative Committee said its members had visited the airline’s office to “obtain technical and pre-flight documentation.”

AFP

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