A plane with 22 people on board has crashed in Russia. Seven people would have survived the crash, but the exact number of victims and survivors is not yet clear.
The twin-engine plane, a Let L-410, contained twenty paratroopers from a regional flying club and two crew members. The plane crashed near Menzelinsk, a city in the Russian Autonomous Republic of Tatarstan about 1,100 kilometers east of Moscow. According to initial reports, the plane crashed shortly after take-off and then caught fire.
It is the third L-410 accident in Russia in a few months. Last month, four people were killed in a crash in the Siberian region of Irkutsk.
In June, an L-410 aircraft carrying paratroopers crashed in the Kemerovo region. Nine people lost their lives in that crash.
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