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A Russian passenger plane has made an emergency landing at Moscow Airport after a fire broke out mid‑flight this morning.
Videos on social media show passengers using emergency exit slides to escape the aircraft.
Other footage shows the plane landing while on fire and black smoke billowing from it on the tarmac.
Initial reports on suggest all 78 passengers on‑board were evacuated.
It remains unclear at this stage how many people have been injured in the large blaze.
[Source: BBC]
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Stories published on 06/05/2019
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