Russia In Mourning Over Tragic Plane Accident
Mary K. Brunskill - All Headline News Staff Writer Irkutsk, Russia (AHN) - Churches held special services and flags flew at half-staff Monday across Russia to mourn for the at least 124 dead and four missing after a plane accident in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday. The plane careened off the runway, tore through a 16-foot-high concrete barrier, crashed into a compound of 1-story garages and then burst into flames. Seventy-five of the 203 people on the flight survived. Citing unnamed sources, Russian news agencies reported that preliminary data indicates the crash was due to a failure in the braking system on Airbus A310, operated on Russian airline S7. Three people whose names were not on the passenger list were pulled unconscious from the wreckage. Of the 203 on the plane, 10 were crew members. Fourteen of the 193 passengers were children. On Monday, relatives of those on board the plane were seen arriving at Irkutsk morgues to try to identify the dead. The crash is the second commercial airline plane to crash in Russia in the last two months. There were incidents Monday involving three other Russian planes; no one was killed.
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