Plane crew survives Moscow airport crash

A jet carrying three crew members but no passengers crashed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport today, emergency and aviation officials said.

An aviation official said the crew survived.

The plane crashed on take-off in a snowstorm on a flight from Moscow to Berlin, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman said.

She said it was an Airbus A-310, but a spokesman for Russia’s Air Navigation Service, Andrei Pryanishnikov, said it was a smaller, American-made plane – possibly a corporate jet.

He said all three people on board survived.

The plane overturned while taking off and caught fire, air traffic controller Konstantin Fyodorov said on state-run television.