This Article is From Jun 19, 2021

Four Killed, Four Badly Injured In Plane Crash In Siberia

TASS news agency earlier said at least seven people were killed when the twin-engine L-410 crashed near the Tanay aerodrome.

Four Killed, Four Badly Injured In Plane Crash In Siberia

A medical services spokesman said the injured were being airlifted to hospitals.

Moscow:

Four people were killed and four badly injured on Saturday when a small plane crashed in Russia's Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia, the local emergency medical service said.

TASS news agency earlier said at least seven people were killed when the twin-engine L-410 crashed near the Tanay aerodrome, which provides parachuting services.

It also cited the local prosecutors' office as saying the crew had sent a distress signal about engine failure.

A medical services spokesman told Reuters the injured were being airlifted to hospitals.

Social media showed pictures of the heavily-damaged plane with an ambulance nearby.

A spokesman at a Siberian branch of Russian civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia said a search and rescue operation was under way, declining to provide details.

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