Pictures: Russia plane crash

A policeman stands at the site of a plane crash that left 44 people dead and eight critically injured.
A policeman stands at the site of a plane crash that left 44 people dead and eight critically injured.
Personnel from the Russian emergency services work at the site of a plane crash about 1km from the runway at the airport outside the northern Russian city of Petrozavodsk.
At least 44 people were killed when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in heavy fog in north-western Russia, an Emergency Ministry spokeswoman said.
In this photo provided by Russia Emergency Situations Ministry press service, wreckage of Tu-134 plane, belonging to the RusAir airline, is seen on a highway near the city of Petrozavodsk.
Personnel from the Russian emergency services work at the site of a plane crash.

Published Jun 21, 2011

A passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames on a highway in northwestern Russia, just short of a runway whose fog lights had failed killing at least 44 people on board, officials said. Eight people survived the crash.