Russian plane crash kills 122
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IRKUTSK, Russia  - A Russian airliner crashed on   landing and burst into flames in Siberia on Sunday, killing at   least 122 people and injuring more than 50, emergency officials   said.
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Authorities in Russia have stepped up security at airports and other sites after Tuesday&#39;s plane crashes. The planes went down five days before a presidential election in the volatile republic of Chechnya, where
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Rescuers have recovered 102 bodies from  a Russian airliner which crashed on landing after a domestic  flight to Siberia on Sunday, the Emergencies Ministry said.
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The Russian government abruptly shifted gears yesterday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week exploded in a terrorist bombing.
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Nearly 150 people, including many children, are feared dead after a Russian airliner crashes on landing.
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Here are some of the more serious passenger plane crashes involving the airlines serving Russia and the former Soviet Union.
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BEIJING - There were no survivors in a plane crash that occurred in northern China Sunday, say government officials. There were 47 passengers and three crew members on board the plane headed for Shanghai.
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A group of Islamic militants has claimed responsibility for Tuesdayâs air crashes in Russia. The statement, published on a website known for militant Muslim comment, linked the action to Russia&#39;s fight against separatists in Chechnya.
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Terrorism, human error or mechanical mishap could have caused one of Russia's worst air tragedies in which two planes crashed almost simultaneously and killed at least 89 people, officials said on Wednesday.
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A pilot-in-training who failed to maintain a Russian passenger jet's speed was partly to blame for the jet slamming into a Ukrainian field last year, killing all 170 on board, a transport commission said Saturday.
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Domodedovo Airport, starting point of the two planes that crashed Tuesday, is one of three main passenger airports serving the Russian capital.
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Russia is observing a day of mourning for the 89 people killed in two plane crashes that occurred within minutes of one another late on 24 August.
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Two Russian passenger airliners from Moscow crashed within minutes of each other, killing all 89 passengers and crew, the greatest number of civilian Russian air deaths in a single day for more than three years.
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A Russian passenger plane veered off the runway on landing early Sunday, hit a concrete barrier and burst into flames, a government spokeswoman said. About 150 people were reported killed in the crash in the Siberian city of Irkutsk.
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Estimated times of key developments in the nearly simultaneous crashes of two Russian airliners.
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A Iranian military plane belonging to the Revolutionary Guards crashed on Monday, killing 38 people, state television reported.
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A militant Islamic group has claimed responsibility for the twin air crashes in southern Russia earlier this week, which killed 89 people.