BESOVETS, Russia - At least 44 people were killed when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in heavy fog in north-western Russia, an Emergency Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
The Tupolev-134 plane, carrying 52 people including nine crew, crashed near a road about 1 k.m. from the runway at the Besovets airport outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk.
