Crew killed as plane crashes after take-off
The Pulkovo Airlines Ilyushin Il-86, Russia's answer to the jumbo jet and capable of carrying up to 350 passengers, was setting off for its home base in St. Petersburg, empty but for the flight and cabin crews, when it suddenly plunged to earth.
It was the second crash of a Russian-built plane in two days. On Saturday, 83 people died when a Russian-built Sukhoi jet fighter crashed at an air show in Lviv in Ukraine.
