At least 28 people were killed today when a Russian airliner crashed.

THE Russian man suspected of killing a Swiss air controller to avenge the death of his family in a mid-air collision was grief-stricken to the point of madness but did not publicly voice any threats, people who knew him said yesterday.

Grieving relatives and friends gathered in the Ural Mountains city of Ufa today to pay their final respects to 28 people killed in last week’s air crash over Germany.

SWITZERLAND conceded yesterday that its air traffic controllers were at least partly to blame for the midair collision of a Russian charter jet and a cargo plane which killed 71 people.

HUNDREDS of people crowded into a square in the Urals city of Ufa yesterday to mourn the 45 Russian schoolchildren who died in last week's mid-air disaster over Germany.

Hundreds of people have crowded into the city square in Ufa to mourn the 45 Russian schoolchildren who died in last week's midair disaster over Germany.

Swiss prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the collision between two airliners that killed 71 people 35,000ft above southern Germany.

Swiss prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the collision between two airliners that killed 71 people 35,000ft above southern Germany.

Relatives of 45 Russian schoolchildren killed when their holiday jet collided with a cargo plane over southern Germany were today visiting the crash site on the Swiss border.

At least 10 people died today when a steamroller tumbled off a truck and crashed onto a passenger bus in central Russia, emergency workers said.