Video: Commercial plane catches fire after landing at Moscow airport

At least 13 dead and a dozen wounded of various considerations caused the fire in flight of an aircraft of the Russian company Aeroflot, which had just taken off from Moscow Sheremetievo airport bound for Murmansk (north) , and had to return to an emergency landing, Russian news agencies said Sunday.

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 model took off with 73 pbadengers and 6 crew members, according to Russian media reports.

A video broadcast by Russian television shows the landing of the plane in the grip of the flames. In other videos broadcast by social networks, you can see the evacuation of pbadengers through the slides.

According to the agency Ria Novosti, an electrical problem would have caused the fire in flight.

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 "sent an emergency signal shortly after takeoff, made a first emergency landing attempt and then struck the fuselage with the fuselage," said a source. Airport quoted by the Interfax news agency.

According to the Flightradar24 specialized website, the plane took off at 15:03 GMT and the pilot reported a flight incident at 15:15. Then the emergency signal was activated at 3:25 pm.

"A criminal investigation has been opened for violation of security rules," said the Russian research committee in a statement.

The Superjet-100 was the first civil aircraft designed in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Pride of pride at the time of its launch, it has since been criticized and has been very little accepted outside the Russian market and several foreign companies have raised problems of reliability.

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