Two Bodies Found at Russian Plane Crash Site, Says Emergency

Two bodies have been found at the site of a Russian plane crash on Sunday, Reuters reported an official at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry as saying.

A plane operated by Russia’s Saratov Airlines crashed near Moscow on Sunday. There were 71 people on board and all of them are feared dead, the Russian authorities said.

News agencies said witnesses in the village of Argunovo saw a burning plane falling from the sky.

A source from Russia’s emergency services told Interfax that the 71 people on board“had no chance” of survival.

President Vladimir Putin offered his condolences to the families of those on board.

“The president offers his profound condolences to those who lost their relatives in the crash,”Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

State television aired a video of the crash site, showing parts of the wreckage in the snow. Russia has seen record high snowfalls in recent days and visibility was reportedly poor.

The Russian-made plane was seven years old and bought by Saratov Airlines from another Russian airline a year ago, according to AFP.

Russian media reported that the emergency services were unable to reach the crash site by road and that rescue workers walked to the scene on foot. Emergency services said in a statement that more than 150 rescue workers were deployed to the site.

A source at Domodedovo, Moscow’s second largest airport, told agencies that the plane disappeared from radars within two minutes of take off.