There were 78 people including crew members on board the plane.
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Denis Yevdokimov, however, has told Russian media the craft lost communication and needed to switch to emergency control mode “because of lightning” on the Aeroflot flight to the Arctic city of Murmansk.“We managed to restore communication through the emergency frequency on our radio connection. But the link was only for a short time and kept cutting out… it was possible to say only a few words,” he told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
Passengers could be seen leaping onto an inflatable slide at the front and running from the blazing plane as huge black columns of smoke billowed into the sky. I believe they were in a state of deep shock. The jet left Sheremetyevo at 6:02pm , and the crew issued a distress signal shortly afterwards, officials said.
Investigators said they were looking into various lines of inquiry and it was premature to draw any conclusions about the cause of the accident.
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