Thursday, 15. February 2007

Prosecutors Probe Moscow Jet Crash


Russian officials opened a criminal investigation Wednesday into the crash of a corporate jet at a Moscow airport that left one of the plane's three crew members in a coma, a top prosecutor said.

The plane, a Canadair Special Edition, crashed Tuesday after one of its two engines caught fire as it took off in a snowstorm from Vnukovo Airport on a flight to Berlin. A Moscow-based company, Fort Aero, said it owned the plane.

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