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Residents of Murmansk lay down flowers at the airport to pay tribute to victims killed in a plane fire. Forty-one people including at least two children have died after a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and erupted in a huge ball of fire and black smoke at Moscow's busiest airport on Sunday. IMAGES of people laying flowers
Ambulances are parked outside Moscow airport, where flights are being canceled and people leave after a passenger plane on fire attempted an emergency landing at Moscow's busiest airport. "For the moment, we confirm the death of 13 people, two of them children,' said a spokeswoman for the crash investigation team, Svetlana Petrenko, news agencies reported.
Images show a Russian passenger plane landing in Georgia for the first time since 2019, following a decision last week from Russian President Vladimir Putin to lift a flight ban. The resumption of flights has stirred protests in Georgia, as Moscow fought a brief but bloody war with Georgia and recognised two separatist territories in the north of the country as independent. IMAGES
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who has spent five months in Berlin recovering from a poisoning attack, is on a plane headed back to Moscow. Navalny's flight on budget airline Pobeda took off from Berlin's BER airport at 1417 GMT. Navalny risks being arrested on arrival, but told reporters on board that he was "an innocent person". IMAGES
A Bangladeshi passenger plane crashes near Kathmandu airport as it is coming in to land. IMAGES
More than a dozen people were injured after a plane suddenly caught fire while it taxied for departure on Thursday afternoon at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida.
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