13 dead after Aeroflot plane's emergency landing, fire at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport - Fox News

At least 13 people were killed in a fire on a Russian airliner forced to make a hard emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Sunday, officials said.

Russia's Investigative Committee said two children were among the dead but did not immediately provide further details.

Airport officials said Aeroflot flight SU1492, a Sukhoi SSJ-100 regional jet, had taken off for the northern city of Murmansk before it was forced to turn around with 73 passengers and five crew members on board.

In this image provided by Riccardo Dalla Francesca shows smoke rises from a fire on a plane at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday, May 5, 2019. (Riccardo Dalla Francesca via AP)

Aeroflot said in a brief statement that the plane's engines were burning after the aircraft landed, but the sequence of events before and after the fire started was not clear. The statement did not specify what caused the plane to return to Sheremetyevo Airport, saying only that technical problems forced the jet to turn around.

This image taken from video provided by Instagram user @artempetrovich, shows an Aeroflot Airlines flight on fire during an emergency landing in Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, Russia. (@artempetrovich via AP)

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Videos and pictures posted to Twitter showed the jet landing at Sheremetyevo Airport with large flames engulfing the rear section.

One video showed a massive amount of flames coming from what appeared to be the engine as the plane touched down on a runway.

Video aired by Russian news channel Rossiya-24 showed passengers leaping from the front of the burning aircraft onto an inflatable slide and staggering across the tarmac and adjoining grass.

A law enforcement source told the Interfax news agency that the plane gave a distress signal after departure, then tried to make an emergency landing. After a first attempt failed, the aircraft was able to make a landing on the second try.

The incident caused at least 53 flights to be delayed and one canceled, according to Interfax. Airport officials told the news agency that the airport was operating "in a limited mode with one runway."

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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