Child survives in Russian plane crash, six dead
Six people died when a Let L-410 Turbolet twin-engine short-range passenger plane crashed while performing a landing in Russia’s Far Eastern Khabarovsk Territory, the regional department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said, according to TASS report.
The plane was carrying two pilots and five passengers. The three-year-old child has been taken to a hospital in a serious condition, the sources quote an official at the administration of the Nelkan village as saying. The bodies of six persons have been retrieved from the plane’s debris.
The plane, en route from the region’s administrative center of Khabarovsk to the village of Nelkan, crashed while landing. The plane was owned by the Khabarovsk Airlines.