Two killed, 40 injured in plane’s emergency landing

Moscow, Dec 4 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Two people were killed and 40 injured when a Dagestan Airlines plane with 155 people on board skidded off the runway at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport during an emergency landing, an official said.

“According to the latest information, two people were killed and 40 were injured after the emergency landing,” a spokesman of the emergencies ministry said.

Sixty rescuers including fire fighting personnel are working at the scene, the spokesman said.

“Passengers with serious wounds are being sent to hospitals,” an airport official said.

A source in Dagestan Airlines said a reserve aircraft was ready to send the passengers from the troubled plane to Dagestan.

The aircraft departed for the southern Russian city of Makhachkala from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport at 2.07 p.m. (11.07 GMT). The Tu-154 plane was forced to make an emergency landing after all three of its engines failed.

–IANS/RIA Novosti