Update: Plane crash in northwest Russia kills 44, including 8 foreigners

Forty-four people, including eight foreigners, were killed when a Tu-134 passenger aircraft crashed in Russia’s northwestern republic of Karelia, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. The RusAir jet, which took off from Moscow at 22:30 local time (18:30 GMT) on Monday was due to arrive in Petrozavodsk at 00:04 on Tuesday (20:04 GMT […]