MOSCOW, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Some 40 people have been hospitalized after a passenger plane went off the runway while trying to land and caught fire at Irkutsk in Siberia, said Russian emergencies ministry early Sunday.

    But the ministry did not mention any deaths, the Interfax news agency reported.

    The plane is an A-310 airliner with 200 people on board, added the report. Enditem