A passenger plane, flight B4-213 of Bhoja Air, crashed at Koral Chowk on Islamabad Express Highway in Rawalpindi on Friday.
It was carrying over 121 passengers and was headed from Karachi to Islamabad.
Seat chart:
Number of adults: 110
Children: 6
Infants: 5
Total passengers: 121
Crew members: 6
Below is a list of passengers who had checked in:
1. Abbas Ali
2. Abida Javed Malik
3. Adeel Chughtai
4. Aiman Ikram
5. Altamash Khan
6. Anisa Akbar
7. Anum Hussain
8. Asif Aftab
9. Asmaa Ahmad
10. Ataur Rehman
11. Azizur Rehman
12. Baqir Mehdi
13. Bibi Hameeda
14. Chand Baboo
15. Chd Faiq
16. Dilshad Kamaal
17. Dr Abdul Qadir
18. Dr Asadullah
19. Fahira Laiq
20. Farah Sajid
21. Fatima
22. Fehmeeda Zubair
23. Ghulam Farooq Qasmi
24. Ghulam Rehman
25. Gul
26. Gul Faraz
27. Gul Sharif Jana
28. Gul Zaman
29. Habibur Rehman
30. Hafeezur Rehman
31. Hafsa Chughtai
32. Hafsa Shahid
33. Haleema Sadia
34. Hamida Khadima Baloch
35. Haris Haris
36. Husun Nisa
37. Imran Waheed
38. Irfan Ali
39. Javed Akhtar Malik
40. Javed Iqbal
41. Kalo Abbasi
42. Khwaja Raziuddin
43. Liauqat Ali
44. Masooda Begum
45. Mishir Jan
46. Mohammad Atiq Khan
47. Mrs Mohammad Latif
48. Mohammad Latif
49. Moiz Sadiq
50. Mrs Khalida
51. Ms Yumna
52. Muhammad Abdul Hafeez
53. Muhamad Anwar Khan
54. Muhammad Ashfaq Khan
55. Muhammad Farooq
56. Muhammad Irfan
57. Muhammad Irfan
58. Muhammad Qasim
59. Muhammad Shahnawaz
60. Muhammad Sohail
61. Muhammad Younus
62. Muhammada Abdullah
63. Mujtaba Siyal
64. Mukhan Jan
65. Munawar Sultana
66. Musarrat Shaheen
67. Nadir Khan Fazaldad
68. Nasreen
69. Nazmeen
70. Nighat Mehdi
71. Nihaluddin Alvi
72. Nisar Ahmed
73. Nuzhat
74. Qamar Aftab
75. Qari Muhammad Abdul Rahman
76. Rakh Shanda
77. Rakhshanda
78. Rashida Rehman
79. Raza Ali Khan Feroz
80. Ree Han
81. SM Saud Ishaq
82. Saba Amber
83. Sadaf Baloch
84.Sadaf Tanveer
85. Saeed Khan
86. Saeeda Akhtar
87. Sania Abbas
88. Sarah Chughtai
89. Sardar Shah
90. Sarwat Mumtaz
91. Shabbir Ahmad Awan
92. Shahid Iqbal
93. Shamima Abdullah
94. Shazia Baloch
95. Sobia Ubaid
96. Suleiman Chughtai
97. Sumaiyah Chughtai
98. Syed Muhammad Amjad
99. Syed Muhammad Rizwan
100. Syed Omar Ali
101. Syed Sajjad Ali Rizvi
102. Syeda Amjad Shaheen
103. Syeda Rizwan Sufia
104. Tabbasum Sarwat
105. Tabia Rehman
106. Talat Mahmood Qureshi
107. Tanveer Jan
108. Tariq Mehmood
109. Tasadouq Mahmood
110. Tasneem Begum
111. Tuba Shewar
112. Usman Rahim
113. Usman Rasheed
114. Uzma Inam
115. Wajat Abbasi
116. Waji Ha
117. Yasmin Muhammad Sultan
118. Zaheer Shah
119. Zahida Aziz
120. Zaibun Nisa
121. Zuhra Begum
Crew members:
1. Captain Noor Afridi
2. First Officer Javed Malik
3. Head of Cabin Crew Ammad
4. Flight Purser Ghazala Malik
5. Air Hostess Princess Flavia
6. Air Hostess Sanam Fareed
It was carrying over 121 passengers and was headed from Karachi to Islamabad.
Seat chart:
Number of adults: 110
Children: 6
Infants: 5
Total passengers: 121
Crew members: 6
Below is a list of passengers who had checked in:
1. Abbas Ali
2. Abida Javed Malik
3. Adeel Chughtai
4. Aiman Ikram
5. Altamash Khan
6. Anisa Akbar
7. Anum Hussain
8. Asif Aftab
9. Asmaa Ahmad
10. Ataur Rehman
11. Azizur Rehman
12. Baqir Mehdi
13. Bibi Hameeda
14. Chand Baboo
15. Chd Faiq
16. Dilshad Kamaal
17. Dr Abdul Qadir
18. Dr Asadullah
19. Fahira Laiq
20. Farah Sajid
21. Fatima
22. Fehmeeda Zubair
23. Ghulam Farooq Qasmi
24. Ghulam Rehman
25. Gul
26. Gul Faraz
27. Gul Sharif Jana
28. Gul Zaman
29. Habibur Rehman
30. Hafeezur Rehman
31. Hafsa Chughtai
32. Hafsa Shahid
33. Haleema Sadia
34. Hamida Khadima Baloch
35. Haris Haris
36. Husun Nisa
37. Imran Waheed
38. Irfan Ali
39. Javed Akhtar Malik
40. Javed Iqbal
41. Kalo Abbasi
42. Khwaja Raziuddin
43. Liauqat Ali
44. Masooda Begum
45. Mishir Jan
46. Mohammad Atiq Khan
47. Mrs Mohammad Latif
48. Mohammad Latif
49. Moiz Sadiq
50. Mrs Khalida
51. Ms Yumna
52. Muhammad Abdul Hafeez
53. Muhamad Anwar Khan
54. Muhammad Ashfaq Khan
55. Muhammad Farooq
56. Muhammad Irfan
57. Muhammad Irfan
58. Muhammad Qasim
59. Muhammad Shahnawaz
60. Muhammad Sohail
61. Muhammad Younus
62. Muhammada Abdullah
63. Mujtaba Siyal
64. Mukhan Jan
65. Munawar Sultana
66. Musarrat Shaheen
67. Nadir Khan Fazaldad
68. Nasreen
69. Nazmeen
70. Nighat Mehdi
71. Nihaluddin Alvi
72. Nisar Ahmed
73. Nuzhat
74. Qamar Aftab
75. Qari Muhammad Abdul Rahman
76. Rakh Shanda
77. Rakhshanda
78. Rashida Rehman
79. Raza Ali Khan Feroz
80. Ree Han
81. SM Saud Ishaq
82. Saba Amber
83. Sadaf Baloch
84.Sadaf Tanveer
85. Saeed Khan
86. Saeeda Akhtar
87. Sania Abbas
88. Sarah Chughtai
89. Sardar Shah
90. Sarwat Mumtaz
91. Shabbir Ahmad Awan
92. Shahid Iqbal
93. Shamima Abdullah
94. Shazia Baloch
95. Sobia Ubaid
96. Suleiman Chughtai
97. Sumaiyah Chughtai
98. Syed Muhammad Amjad
99. Syed Muhammad Rizwan
100. Syed Omar Ali
101. Syed Sajjad Ali Rizvi
102. Syeda Amjad Shaheen
103. Syeda Rizwan Sufia
104. Tabbasum Sarwat
105. Tabia Rehman
106. Talat Mahmood Qureshi
107. Tanveer Jan
108. Tariq Mehmood
109. Tasadouq Mahmood
110. Tasneem Begum
111. Tuba Shewar
112. Usman Rahim
113. Usman Rasheed
114. Uzma Inam
115. Wajat Abbasi
116. Waji Ha
117. Yasmin Muhammad Sultan
118. Zaheer Shah
119. Zahida Aziz
120. Zaibun Nisa
121. Zuhra Begum
Crew members:
1. Captain Noor Afridi
2. First Officer Javed Malik
3. Head of Cabin Crew Ammad
4. Flight Purser Ghazala Malik
5. Air Hostess Princess Flavia
6. Air Hostess Sanam Fareed
Sources said at least four coalminers were killed when toxic gas accumulated in a coalmine, causing an explosion in the Chamalang area of Balochistan. Coalmine sources said that four labourers working inside the coalmine died as lethal gas that had accumulated in the mine caused a huge explosion. The victims include Zahir Khan, Wali Jan, Musa Khan and Naseebullah. Soon after the blast, rescue teams reached the spot and started an operation to pull out the dead labourers from the coalmine. The bodies of the deceased have been sent to their native towns.
At least Seven people died while seventeen others sustained injuries when three vans collided with each other here on Sunday, Express news 24/7 reported.
According to the report, the incident took place on Ajnala Road when three high-speed vans coming from different directions collided with each other. A truck also hit the vans.
All three drivers among five died on the spots while another person succumbed to injuries afterwards.
Dead bodies and injured people were immediately rushed to District Headquarter Hospital. According to the doctors, six injured persons are in critical condition.
According to the report, the incident took place on Ajnala Road when three high-speed vans coming from different directions collided with each other. A truck also hit the vans.
All three drivers among five died on the spots while another person succumbed to injuries afterwards.
Dead bodies and injured people were immediately rushed to District Headquarter Hospital. According to the doctors, six injured persons are in critical condition.
As many as 15 passengers including four children were burnt to death and 15 others injured as a passenger van caught fire after head-on collision with a truck here in Vehari on Saturday.
According to police, a Vehari-bound passenger van coming from Multan, with more than 20 persons onboard, collided head-on with a goods laden truck at Mailsi Road, in Taba Sultanpur locality of Vehari.
CNG cylinder installed in the van exploded after the collision and the van caught fire.
At least 15 passengers including four children and driver of the van were burnt to death and eight others received injuries.
The locals reached the scene of the accident and started rescue activities. The police and rescue teams later joined the relief operation.
The injured were shifted to local hospital where according to hospital sources condition of several injured people was serious.
Eyewitnesses said that the accident took place due to over speeding, reckless driving and substandard CNG cylinder of the van that burst after collision.
According to police, a Vehari-bound passenger van coming from Multan, with more than 20 persons onboard, collided head-on with a goods laden truck at Mailsi Road, in Taba Sultanpur locality of Vehari.
CNG cylinder installed in the van exploded after the collision and the van caught fire.
At least 15 passengers including four children and driver of the van were burnt to death and eight others received injuries.
The locals reached the scene of the accident and started rescue activities. The police and rescue teams later joined the relief operation.
The injured were shifted to local hospital where according to hospital sources condition of several injured people was serious.
Eyewitnesses said that the accident took place due to over speeding, reckless driving and substandard CNG cylinder of the van that burst after collision.
A light airplane crashed into a school building Saturday near the Philippine capital after its pilot requested an emergency landing shortly after takeoff, killing at least 13 people, including two children. The plane burst into flames after hitting the school, said Mayor Florencio Bernabe of suburban Paranaque city. No classes were in session when the plane hit, but officials were determining how many on the ground were injured or killed, he said. Firefighters reported that the bodies were charred and that the dead included the pilot and the co-pilot — the only two people on the plane, Bernabe said. Police Senior Inspector Dennis Sirilan said the fire spread rapidly to nearby shanties that surround the school after the twin-engine plane crashed.
MULTAN,Dec 8th: At least seven passengers have died and another 15 injured when a speedy Muzaffargarh bound van rammed into a parked trolly loaded with sugarcane on Thursday morning.DPO Muzaffargarh Rao Munir Ahmed Zia said," This mishap occurred due to reckless driving in foggy season which caused the death of seven persons," This van wascoming from Layyah city and passengers who were identified as two real sisters Zartasha, Sonia, a sub inspector Police Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Nasir ,Mujahid Ali and two unidentified persons.The injured were referred to Nishtar Hospital Multan because condition of four passengers is stated to be precarious.Police said that 22 passengers were loaded against the capacity of 15 persons including driver with the criminal connivance of traffic police.
At least five people were killed and 15 injured during a traffic accident here,South Punjab News reported.According to the SHO Saddar police station Asif Shah the three vehicle accident took place when a car tried to overtake a van uploading passengers and collided with another passenger bus.Rescue 1122 reached the spot and rushed the injured to nearby hospitals while emergency was declared at all Jhang hospitals.
A fighter jet plunged to the ground and exploded as it took part in an air display at a show in northern China Friday, organisers and state media said.
China's state-run television CCTV showed images of the Chinese-made plane falling from the sky and bursting into flames when it hit the ground at the show in Shaanxi province.
The pilot managed to eject and was seen parachuting down, but a journalist at the scene said the parachute had not fully opened and it was unclear whether the pilot was injured when he landed.
He added there were no casualties on the ground.
It was unclear what type of fighter plane was involved in the crash. The official Xinhua news agency said it was a two-seat, fighter-bomber Flying Leopard -- or JH-7 -- a model officially launched in December 1988.
But CCTV said it was a Xiaolong ("Fierce Dragon") fighter jet -- or FC-1 -- which is the result of a joint Sino-Pakistani development programme that started in 1999.
"The plane had some malfunction and an investigation team has been sent to the scene," said a spokeswoman for the China International General Aviation Convention, the organiser of the air show held in Xian's Pucheng Neifu airport.
She told AFP she did not know what type of plane it was, adding she had no further details as the scene of the incident was far from the main air show venue.
Reporters for the official Xinhua news agency, who were present at the air display, said they saw heavy smoke billowing from the ground after the crash, but added the show was continuing.
According to the People's Daily newspaper, some 100 foreign and domestic planes are on display at the air show, and around 30 aircraft are putting on displays.
Hungarian, Swedish, US and Lithuanian aerobatic teams have been invited to participate in the three-day show, which is expected to attract around 100,000 people, it added.
The accident is the latest to hit China's air force.
In January 2007, a military aircraft crashed in a southern Chinese city after a mid-air explosion but the pilot survived, according to press reports.
In June of the previous year, an early warning aircraft crashed in China's eastern Anhui province, killing all 40 people on board -- an accident described as the "worst air disaster in the history of China's air force".
Two months before the Anhui crash, a jet fighter came down in the southern island of Hainan after a mid-air explosion.
And in 2004, a Chinese F-7 fighter jet on a training mission over central Hubei province crashed into civilian housing, resulting in the death of a child on the ground.
China's state-run television CCTV showed images of the Chinese-made plane falling from the sky and bursting into flames when it hit the ground at the show in Shaanxi province.
The pilot managed to eject and was seen parachuting down, but a journalist at the scene said the parachute had not fully opened and it was unclear whether the pilot was injured when he landed.
He added there were no casualties on the ground.
It was unclear what type of fighter plane was involved in the crash. The official Xinhua news agency said it was a two-seat, fighter-bomber Flying Leopard -- or JH-7 -- a model officially launched in December 1988.
But CCTV said it was a Xiaolong ("Fierce Dragon") fighter jet -- or FC-1 -- which is the result of a joint Sino-Pakistani development programme that started in 1999.
"The plane had some malfunction and an investigation team has been sent to the scene," said a spokeswoman for the China International General Aviation Convention, the organiser of the air show held in Xian's Pucheng Neifu airport.
She told AFP she did not know what type of plane it was, adding she had no further details as the scene of the incident was far from the main air show venue.
Reporters for the official Xinhua news agency, who were present at the air display, said they saw heavy smoke billowing from the ground after the crash, but added the show was continuing.
According to the People's Daily newspaper, some 100 foreign and domestic planes are on display at the air show, and around 30 aircraft are putting on displays.
Hungarian, Swedish, US and Lithuanian aerobatic teams have been invited to participate in the three-day show, which is expected to attract around 100,000 people, it added.
The accident is the latest to hit China's air force.
In January 2007, a military aircraft crashed in a southern Chinese city after a mid-air explosion but the pilot survived, according to press reports.
In June of the previous year, an early warning aircraft crashed in China's eastern Anhui province, killing all 40 people on board -- an accident described as the "worst air disaster in the history of China's air force".
Two months before the Anhui crash, a jet fighter came down in the southern island of Hainan after a mid-air explosion.
And in 2004, a Chinese F-7 fighter jet on a training mission over central Hubei province crashed into civilian housing, resulting in the death of a child on the ground.
Five women were killed and three injured in a landsliding incident in Kahrore Paka area here in Lodhran on Monday.Rescue sources said that eight women laborers in Khanka Koh area of Kahrore Paka were digging mud for the construction of walls when unfortunately they were buried under heap of soil after land sliding.According to rescue sources, eight female workers got trapped under the sand rubble while taking part in an under ground construction. Five women died on the spot while other three got hurt.Rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the dead bodies and injured to the hospital.
MULTAN,Oct 7th: Eleven Member of a family drown in river Indus near Layyah on Thursday evening.Two member of this family a boy (12) and a girl (20) were rescused by the divers and remaining drowned to death in the river. Bodies of four women recovered and another five bodies could not found due to darkness.Divers would search the bodies of another five women today (Friday).DPO Layyah Ch.MuhammadSaleem said,"Nine ladies of family were drowned in river indus in a bid to save a twelve year old boy Muhammad Aasim near Karor-Lal Eisan However Aasim and his sister Rahila(20)were survived. DSP Karore Ali Raza Kazmi said that bodies of four women identified as Aqsa (14)Shomaila Tabassum(16) Maryam (18) and Amir Fatima (45) were recovered by the local divers and fishermen and we have called the skilled divers for the search of remaining five women Samina, Nagina ,Rabia, Rehana and Bano would be possible in daylight on Friday.Family sources said that Muhammad Hussain' wife three daughters and a son came from Karachi to join the wedding ceremony Faiz Muhammad's son.After completion of wedding ceremony,Amir Fatima insisted on picnic at the eastern bank of river Indus near Karor-Lal Easian some 130 miles north-west of Multan.Then other member of host family went to the river.Where Muhammad Aasim slipped into 35 feet deep water then his sisters and other women also jumped into water to save him.Ijaz Akhtar of Rescue 1122 said there is no possiblity of survival of the drowning women because flow of river indus is very fast.
More than 100 people burned to death in a fire on a fuel pipeline in a slum area in the Kenyan capital, police said Monday.
“We are putting the number of dead at over 100, we are waiting for body bags to put the victims into,” said Thomas Atuti, area police commander.
The explosion took place in Nairobi’s Lunga Lunga industrial area, which is surrounded by the densely packed tin-shack housing of the Sinai slum.
“There had been a leak in the fuel pipline earlier, and people were going to collect the fuel that was coming out,” said Joseph Mwego, a resident.
“Then there was a loud bang, a big explosion, and smoke and fire burst up high.”Many residents were caught up in the blaze, and an AFP reporter at the scene counted scores of charred bodies around the fire.
“People were trying to scoop fuel from the pipeline,” a Red Cross official told AFP by telephone, adding that the organisation had sent a team to the scene of the fire.
Firefighters sprayed chemical foam to try to contain the fire, while both police and soldiers roped off the area and pushed people back from the area.
Fuel leaks and oil tanker accidents in Africa often draw huge crowds scrambling to scoop fuel, resulting in many deaths due to accidental fires.
In 2009, 122 people were killed after a fire erupted while they were drawing fuel from an overturned tanker in western Kenya.
At least 30 people were injured as a passenger train from Lahore to Rawalpindi derailed, police said.
The incident took place when the passenger train derailed at Sara-e-Alamgir, a village on the eastern bank of Jhelum River on Saturday morning.
About five compartments of the train derailed because the rail track was filled with mud brought by the rain in the area, said railway officials. They ruled out the possibility of terrorism.
At least 29 persons were injured in the incident.
Some of the injured in the accident have been admitted to hospitals in Rawalpindi and Gujrat, said railway officials.
Hospital sources said none of the injured was in critical condition.
The investigations of the incident have been started.At least 30 passengers were injured when four bogies of a train derailed near here in Jhelum on Saturday.
According to police, four bogies of Rawalpindi bound Rawal Express coming from Lahore derailed near Sarai Alamgeer due to unknown reasons.
The police and rescue teams reached the scene of the accident and started rescue activities. At least 30 people injured in the incident were shifted to District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) Jhelum for treatment. According to hospital sources condition of all the injured people was out of danger.
PR authorities have started investigations into the incident.
The accident partially affected the railway traffic but PR personnel soon cleared the track for trains travelling up and down the country.
Six people, including two women and a minor, were electrocuted and more than two dozen people were injured in different parts of the city as heavy downpour lashed the metropolis Saturday afternoon, paralysing the communication and power supply network as more than 100 feeders of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) tripped off the system.
Hospital sources and volunteers of Edhi and Cheepa ambulance services said that three unidentified persons, including a child and a woman, died on the spot when live wire fell on them in Choona Bhatti area of old city.
Two young men, Arif and Naveed, were electrocuted in Haroonabad SITE Town while one woman Anisa, 40, died of electrocution in Kharadar area of old city.
At least 26 motorbike riders received minor injuries as they slipped off their bikes in different parts of the city, mostly on Sharah-i-Faisal, Shahrah-i-Pakistan and University Road.
An official of Met Office said that its Landhi observatory recorded 52 millimetres of rains during one hour spell, while Faisal Base received 31 millimetres, Nazimabad 25 millimetres and Airport 18 millimetres. More rain is expected in next 24 hours, he added.
A spokesman for the KESC said that more than 100 power feeders were tripped off and its engineers and workers were busy in restoring power in different parts of the city.
Heavy rains also caused severe traffic jams on almost every main road and street as vehicles move with a snail pace.
Six students were injured when monkeys attacked Islamabad College for Boys, G-6/2, Friday. Monkeys entered the Islamabad College for Boys, G-6/2, and injured six students. The wounded were shifted to hospital. The college administration said they have informed the CDA about the situation.
Parents have demanded the CDA and Federal Directorate of Education make arrangements to avoid such incidents in future. More than 3,000 students are studying here. Poor fencing arrangements are blamed for monkeys attack.A bus crowded with passengers collided head on with a truck in northern Bangladesh on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and injuring 30 others, a police official said.The fatalities included four children, four women and three men who died instantly and six other passengers who succumbed to their injuries at a hospital, local police chief Anisur Rahman said.All the dead were on the bus that crashed into a truck early Thursday at Shajahanpur in Bogra district, 100 miles north of Dhaka.The fate of the two drivers was not immediately clear, Rahman said.Fatal road accidents are common in Bangladesh, mainly because of lax traffic rules and poor road condition.An independent research has said up to 12,000 people die each year in road crashes in Bangladesh, a nation of 150 million people.
Earlier this month, 44 people, mostly school children, died when the truck they were riding overturned in southeastern district of Chittagong.At least five children of a family were killed when roof of a mud and stone house collapsed overnight due to heavy rain in Mangayal village area of Sihala here in Islamabad on Monday.
According to police sources, the family was sleeping in the house at night when its roof caved in. As a result the kids were buried under the debris and died. Police and rescue team reached the spot after the incident and recovered all dead bodies from the debris.
Police said that Altaf, head of the family belongs to Azad Kashmir and took the bodies of the deceased to his hometown.
Eleven people were killed and 89 others injured when a high-speed 'bullet' train lost power and was hit by another train today. Two of the bullet train's carriages plunged off a bridge after the crash. The official Xinhua New Agency said four carriages on the second train also derailed but it did not say how serious that was. The accident happened in Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province about 8:30pm (12.30 GMT). Rescue personnel are rushing to the scene, the state news agency reports, but that details on casualties are not known.
At least five people were killed and 30 injured when a Russian plane made an emergency landing on a Siberian river on Monday after an engine caught fire, the Emergencies Ministry said.
The crash added to a string of transport disasters in Russia, including the sinking of a riverboat on Sunday in which as many as 128 were killed.
The Antonov-24 (AN-24), a Soviet-designed aircraft, was forced to land on the River Ob in Russia's Tomsk region after its left engine caught fire in mid-flight.
A spokesman for Russia's Federal Investigative Committee was quoted by state-run RIA news agency as saying that the plane had lost its tail upon impact with the water.
The aircraft was travelling from the regional capital of Tomsk to Surgut, also in Siberia, when the crew sent distress signals.
"There were 37 people on board, among them one baby," said Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu. "Casualties totalled 35, five of whom died. Thirty have been hospitalised."
President Dmitry Medvedev suggested at a meeting with officials, including the transportation and emergencies ministers, that the accident showed that the AN-24 model should be taken out of service.
"I have been recently talking about the state of our air fleet. All that I have said regarding Tupolev-134 is applicable to AN-24 planes," said Medvedev, referring to another Soviet-era aircraft that is due to be permanently grounded.
Last month 45 people died in a plane crash in northwest Russia, making it the worst air disaster in over a year.
That accident followed the crash of Polish President Lech Kaczynski's official plane near the western city of Smolensk in a thick fog in April 2010, killing him and all 95 others on board.
The crash added to a string of transport disasters in Russia, including the sinking of a riverboat on Sunday in which as many as 128 were killed.
The Antonov-24 (AN-24), a Soviet-designed aircraft, was forced to land on the River Ob in Russia's Tomsk region after its left engine caught fire in mid-flight.
A spokesman for Russia's Federal Investigative Committee was quoted by state-run RIA news agency as saying that the plane had lost its tail upon impact with the water.
The aircraft was travelling from the regional capital of Tomsk to Surgut, also in Siberia, when the crew sent distress signals.
"There were 37 people on board, among them one baby," said Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu. "Casualties totalled 35, five of whom died. Thirty have been hospitalised."
President Dmitry Medvedev suggested at a meeting with officials, including the transportation and emergencies ministers, that the accident showed that the AN-24 model should be taken out of service.
"I have been recently talking about the state of our air fleet. All that I have said regarding Tupolev-134 is applicable to AN-24 planes," said Medvedev, referring to another Soviet-era aircraft that is due to be permanently grounded.
Last month 45 people died in a plane crash in northwest Russia, making it the worst air disaster in over a year.
That accident followed the crash of Polish President Lech Kaczynski's official plane near the western city of Smolensk in a thick fog in April 2010, killing him and all 95 others on board.
Fifty-five people are feared to have died in a plane crash at Kisangani international airport in Democratic Republic of Congo. Congolese Hewa Bora airline chief executive Stavros Papaioannou warned that the toll was likely to be revised. The plane was carrying 112 people when it tried to land in bad weather. 40 survivors were pulled from the wreckage of the Boeing 727, according to a government spokesman. 'The pilot tried to land but apparently they didn't touch the runway,' Stavros Papaioannou, Congolese airline Hewa Bora chief executive, told Reuters.
Forty four people were killed and eight survived with serious injuries when a Russian passenger plane crashed onto a motorway before landing, leaving bodies strewn over the road, officials said Tuesday.
The RussAir Tu-134 tried to land just before midnight local time Monday on a motorway two kilometres (a little over a mile) from Petrozavodsk airport in the Karelia region of northern Russia.
But the plane, which was carrying out a flight from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, crashed and caught fire before it approached the airport.
“On July 20, a Tu-134 plane sustained a hard landing. Contact was lost with the pilot at 23:40. The survivors have been sent to Petrozavodsk hospital,” the local branch of the emergencies ministry said in a statement on its website.
The spokesman of The Russian investigative committee Vladimir Markin told Russian news agencies that a criminal probe was being opened into neglect of air transport rules. “According to the latest information, 52 people were on board the plane.
Forty four were killed and eight were injured,” an emergencies ministry official told the RIA Novosti news agency.
The emergencies ministry in Moscow published a list of the passengers on the flight while the local branch of the ministry in Karelia gave a list of the eight people who had surivived.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, although the 24-hour news channel Vesti quoted aviation sources as saying that bad weather in the area at the time could have been a factor. Human error was also not ruled out.
Russian media said that it appeared the plane had failed to reach the runway and had carried out a hard landing on the motorway but had been unable to land safely.
A helicopter with psychologists was flying from Saint Petersburg to provide help to the bereaved, the RIA Novosti news agency said.
However it gave few details over the circumstances of the crash and state television also only gave the most minimal of information.
Bodies were strewn over the highway, a source in the aviation industry told the Interfax agency. The aircraft just missed nearby houses when it crashed.
The eight survivors were hospitalised, some in serious condition, emergency situations ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova told RIA Novosti.
The aircraft was on a flight from Moscow to Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia in Russia’s Far North.
Russia’s aviation industry remains blighted by repeated accidents involving its ageing fleet of planes, with the Soviet-era Tupolev jets having a particularly poor safety record.
The RussAir Tu-134 tried to land just before midnight local time Monday on a motorway two kilometres (a little over a mile) from Petrozavodsk airport in the Karelia region of northern Russia.
But the plane, which was carrying out a flight from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, crashed and caught fire before it approached the airport.
“On July 20, a Tu-134 plane sustained a hard landing. Contact was lost with the pilot at 23:40. The survivors have been sent to Petrozavodsk hospital,” the local branch of the emergencies ministry said in a statement on its website.
The spokesman of The Russian investigative committee Vladimir Markin told Russian news agencies that a criminal probe was being opened into neglect of air transport rules. “According to the latest information, 52 people were on board the plane.
Forty four were killed and eight were injured,” an emergencies ministry official told the RIA Novosti news agency.
The emergencies ministry in Moscow published a list of the passengers on the flight while the local branch of the ministry in Karelia gave a list of the eight people who had surivived.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, although the 24-hour news channel Vesti quoted aviation sources as saying that bad weather in the area at the time could have been a factor. Human error was also not ruled out.
Russian media said that it appeared the plane had failed to reach the runway and had carried out a hard landing on the motorway but had been unable to land safely.
A helicopter with psychologists was flying from Saint Petersburg to provide help to the bereaved, the RIA Novosti news agency said.
However it gave few details over the circumstances of the crash and state television also only gave the most minimal of information.
Bodies were strewn over the highway, a source in the aviation industry told the Interfax agency. The aircraft just missed nearby houses when it crashed.
The eight survivors were hospitalised, some in serious condition, emergency situations ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova told RIA Novosti.
The aircraft was on a flight from Moscow to Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia in Russia’s Far North.
Russia’s aviation industry remains blighted by repeated accidents involving its ageing fleet of planes, with the Soviet-era Tupolev jets having a particularly poor safety record.