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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.
Investigators scour the scene after a passenger plane crashed near Moscow minutes after take-off, killing all 71 people on board, in one of Russia's worst-ever plane crashes. The site of the crash was enveloped in heavy snow that was waist-high in places, making it difficult to access, with emergency workers forced to reach the wreckage by foot and use snowmobiles. IMAGES
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.
A Pakistani plane carrying 48 people crashed Wednesday in the country's mountainous north and burst into flames killing everyone on board, authorities said, in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the country's history. IMAGES
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