Plane carrying 71 people has crashed and sadly no one has survived

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Plane carrying 71 people has crashed and sadly no one has survived
Plane carrying 71 people has crashed and sadly no one has survived

Russian Saratov Airlines Flight 6W703 went off the radar after taking off from Domodedovo Airport outside Moscow, TASS Russian news agency reported around 3:30 p.m. local time on Sunday. No technical issues or faults were reported before missing.

Russian Airlines named Saratov Airlines passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed shortly after taking off from an airport outside Moscow on Sunday, according to reports.

Russian transportation minister Maxim Sokolov told the Associated Press on Sunday that “judging by everything, no one has survived this crash.”

Russian officials say that all 71 people on board have died, according to the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.

Saratov Airlines Flight 6W703 went missing from the radar system soon after departing from Domodedovo airport. News was reported by TASS Russian news agency at around 3:30 p.m. local time.

A spokesperson fro Russia’s emergencies ministry told TASS that “Fragments of the An-148 plane and several bodies have been found near the village of Stepanovskoye,”

Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted emergency services as saying there is “no chance” of survivors. It reported that fragments of bodies were scattered at the site of the crash in Ramensky District, about 50 kilometers southeast of Russia’s capital.

President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to form a commission to investigate the crash, presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the TASS news agency.

“The President also expresses deep condolences to all those who lost their relatives and friends in this disaster,” Peskov said.

The cause of the crash is not yet known. The Russian Ministry of Transport said all theories are being considered, including weather conditions and human factors, Interfax reported.

Emergency vehicles failed to reach the site and were traveling on foot amid wreckage strewn a kilometer around the village of Argunovo, according to Interfax.

None of the victims have been identified, but more than 60 of those on board were from the Orenburg region near the southern border with Kazakhstan, the region’s governor’s press service said.

According to Flight Radar 24, a leading online source for Flight information tweeted that flight is descending and its communication with Radar has lost. They reported this 5 minutes after the flight had take off.

Source: The Associated Press