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Rescuers work at the site of a cargo plane crash outside the Russian city of Irkutsk. The Antonov An-12 aircraft "disappeared from radars" during its final approach with seven people on board travelling from Yakutsk. Antonov planes were manufactured during the Soviet era and are still used throughout the former Soviet Union for civilian and military transport, they have been involved in a number of accidents in recent years. IMAGES of emergency workers
Seventy one people, including three foreign nationals and six crew members, were killed when Saratov Airlines flight 6W703 crashed shortly after take-off. The plane was flying to the city of Orsk when it vanished from radar screens shortly after it took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, before crashing some 50 miles south-east of the capital. According to the Russian Transport Ministry a special committee is investigating the cause of the deadly crash.
High winds and impaired visibility may have caused a passenger jet from the United Arab Emirates to take a nosedive on Saturday, killing all 62 people on board.
A Russian-operated Airbus A321 with 224 passengers and crew on board has crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
A Trigana Air flight carrying 54 people on board had lost contact with air traffic control in remote Papua. Nathan Frandino reports.
A Spanish military A330 aircraft lands at Torrejon de Ardoz airbase, carrying more than 200 Spaniards, EU citizens and third country nationals residing in Spain, all evacuated from Israel. IMAGES