Sources from Moscow stated that Russian passenger plane with 71 passengers and crew on board crashed in Moscow region on Sunday, killing everyone on board. Meanwhile the state news agency Tass reported that recently Russia's Emergencies Ministry confirmed the crash of the An-148 plane shortly after it took off from Moscow's Domodedovo airport.
A ministry spokesman told "Fragments of the An-148 and several bodies have been found near the village of Stepanovskoye". Further the Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsiya said the Radio contact with the Saratov Airlines plane was lost several minutes after the take-off. As per report from the agency "The Saratov Airlines plane (flight 730 from Moscow to Orsk) took off at 14.21 Moscow time.
Meanwhile according to preliminary data, there were 65 passengers and six
crew members aboard the plane. "Radio contact with the plane was lost
several minutes after the take-off and the plane went out of the radars which
happened in Moscow region's Ramensky district". Moreover among possible
causes of the crash may be weather conditions, pilot error or technical
malfunction.
