Sixteen people were killed and six more were injured when a plane crashed in Tatarstan on Sunday, Alexei Kuznetsov, aide to the Russian minister of health, told journalists.
"According to preliminary reports as of 11 am, Moscow time, 16 people were killed during a hard landing of an L-410 plane in Tatarstan’s Menzelinsk District.
Six injured people are being taken to clinics of the republic by ambulances and ambulance aircraft," he said.
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Only parachute jumpers in the tail section of an L-410 plane managed to survive after its crash landing in Menzelinsk, Tatarstan, Oleg Shiporov, an instructor at the Menzelinsk aero club told TASS on Sunday.
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According to Shiporov, all quick response services worked very promptly after the plane crash had been reported.
TASS