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. 24 (Xinhua) -- Twenty foreigners died in the passenger plane crash in the Russian Urals earlier this month, the Russian Transport Ministry said Wednesday.

    According to the latest data, the victims include seven citizens of Azerbaijan, six Ukrainians, and one national each from France, Italy, Germany, Uzbekistan, Turkey, China and Belarus.

    The airplane's black boxes were almost decoded, with information being clarified and voices identified, the ministry said in a statement.

    A broad range of issues, including the training of pilots, airport and airline personnel and the airplane's operational conditions, are under investigation, the statement said.

    A Boeing 737 on a flight from Moscow to the central Russian city of Perm, went down on Sept. 14 in the central Ural mountains, killing all 88 people on board.

    The plane, operated by Aeroflot's subsidiary Aeroflot Nord, was believed to have caught fire and exploded before falling.

Passenger plane crashes in Russia's Urals, 88 killed

    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