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Russian plane crash: Forty-one people including at least two children are believed to have died when a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and was engulfed in flames at Moscow's busiest airport Sunday, investigators said. Dramatic footage shared on social media showed Aeroflot's Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, land at Sheremetyevo international airport, flames and black smoke pouring from its fuselage. Passengers could be seen leaping onto an inflatable slide at the front and running from the blazing plane as huge black columns of smoke billowed into the sky. (AP/PTI Photo)
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Investigators said they were looking into various lines of inquiry and it was premature to draw any conclusions about the cause of the accident. (AP Photo)
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The jet carrying 73 passengers and five crew members had just left Sheremetyevo when the crew issued a distress signal. (Reuters Photo)
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Flight Su-1492 took off on schedule at 6:02 pm (15H02 GMT). After the take-off, the crew reported an anomaly and decided to come back to the departure airport. At 6:30 pm, the aircraft made an emergency landing. (Reuters Photo)
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The Sukhoi Superjet-100 was the first civilian aircraft developed in Russia's post-Soviet era and at the time of its launch, in 2011, was a source of national pride. (AP Photo)
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Several flights have been diverted to other Moscow airports or Nizhny Novgorod, some 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the Russian capital. (AP Photo)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin had offered his condolences to the victims' loved ones, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. (AP/PTI Photo)
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