Russian Aeroflot plane crashes, 88 people killed


  • World
  • Sunday, 14 Sep 2008

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed near the Ural mountains on Sunday, killing all 88 passengers and crew on board -- 21 of them foreign nationals.

The plane, operated by Russia's national airline Aeroflot and on an internal flight from Moscow, ploughed into wasteland while trying to land in the Siberian city of Perm.

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