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A Boeing 737 passenger jet has crashed near the Russian city of Perm in the central Ural Mountains and all 88 people on board were believed to have been killed, Russian news agencies reported.
The airliner, operated by Russia's Aeroflot airline, was on an internal flight from Moscow to the Siberian city of Perm when it crashed on Sunday.
A total of seven children, including a baby, were on board, the spokesman for Aeroflot airline company, said.
No foreign nationals were on board the airplane, Aeroflot added.
"According to the latest information, the airplane fell into a ravine near the city limits. There were 82 passengers plus a baby and five crew on board, and by preliminary information, they are all dead," Vladimir Markin, an air investigator, told the RIA Novosti news agency.
"The Trans-Siberian Railway was damaged due to the accident," Markin said.
Contact lost
The Interfax news agency quoted Irina Andrianova, an emergencies ministry spokeswoman, as saying: "We have found the aircraft. It came down within the city limits [of Perm] in a patch of waste ground.
"The airplane took off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport at 01:12am on Sunday [21:12 Saturday GMT], but as it was landing, at the height of 1,800m we lost contact with it," Andrianova said.
She said that the jet crashed into a swamp at around 3:40am [23:40 GMT] on Sunday.
Local media reported that firefighters had extinguished a blaze at the crash site.
Andrianova said there were deaths on the ground or damage, and that there was no indication of a terrorist attack.
However, Valery Tivunov, a Perm emergency official, said in televised comments that the plane crashed just a few dozen meters from an apartment building.
Aviation accidents
A rescue team was reportedly flying out of Moscow to assist local emergency workers, while investigators were working to determine what caused the crash.
Last year, 33 Russian aviation accidents left 318 people dead, a sixfold increase over 2005, raising serious concerns about Russia's civil aviation. Experts point to major faults in the professional training of crews as well as Russia's ageing fleet of passenger jets.
An air safety commission announced in January that the average age of the country's international airliners was 18 years, and its regional jets 30 years.
Sunday's crash was the second involving a Boeing 737 in the former Soviet Union in the past month. An airliner flying from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgystan to Iran crashed shortly after takeoff on August 24, killing 56 people.
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An Aeroflot aircraft is pictured in this file photo.
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