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Seven killed in Russian air crash
MOSCOW - Seven people were killed on Saturday and 50 injured when a passenger jet crashed on landing in the central Russian city of Samara, the latest blow to the country’s aviation industry still reeling from its deadliest year on record in 2006. A twin-engine Tupolev Tu-134 jet operated by regional airline YUT-Air crashed as it landed in heavy weather in Samara, 1,100 kilometres (685 miles) east of Moscow, breaking into pieces and killing seven of the 57 passengers and crew aboard, officials said.
Maybe EADS can get the Russians to buy in to Airbus, then they can close the Tupolev factory and build Airbuses. Everyone wins.
Six people were trapped in the wreckage of the plane for about three hours before being freed by rescue workers. A total of 23 people were hospitalised, while another 27 were treated by psychologists at the Samara airport, emergency situation ministry officials told agency ITAR-TASS.

The crash followed 33 Russian aviation accidents last year that left 318 dead -- a sixfold increase over 2005 -- according to a report by the Interstate Aviation Committee, a joint group involving former Soviet states.
Posted by: Steve White 2007-03-18
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