BEIJING, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday sent a message of condolences to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev over the plane crash which killed more than 80 people on board.
On behalf of the Chinese government, the Chinese people and himself, Hu expressed sincere condolences and deep mourning over the deaths in the tragedy to the Russian president and the relatives of the bereaved.
A Russian Boeing-737 airliner went down at about 3 a.m. (2300 GMT Saturday) Sunday in a patch of wasteland on the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm in the central Ural mountains, killing at least 81 passengers and six crew members.
A video grab shows firefighters working near the wreckage of a Russian airliner near the Siberian city of Perm, September 14, 2008. The Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed near the Ural mountains on Sunday, killing all 88 people on board, officials said. The plane, operated by Russia's national airline Aeroflot and on an internal flight from Moscow, ploughed into wasteland while trying to land in the Siberian city of Perm.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>
MOSCOW, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- A passenger plane with 88 people on board crashed in Russia's Ural region and all people aboard were believed to have been killed, Russian news agencies reported Sunday, quoting emergency authorities.
The Boeing-737 jet went down at about 3 a.m. (2300 GMT Saturday) Sunday in a patch of wasteland on the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm in the central Ural mountains, the Itar-Tass news agency said. Full story
