Shweder welcome to the program a russian passenger plane has crashed outside of moscow killing all seventy one people on board the sato of Airlines Regional jet disappeared from radar screens shortly after taking off from my moscow airport the cause of the crash remains unclear but russian president Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to set up a special commission to investigate. The saratov lines jet was carrying sixty five passengers and six crew the aircraft came down on snow covered ground just outside moscow Emergency Services rushed to the scene but the authorities later confirmed there were no survivors the plane crashed just a few minutes after takeoff from moscows drama good of an airport the flight was heading for the city of some fifteen hundred kilometers to the southeast near russias border with kazakhstan most of the passengers are thought to have lived in the region People Living near the crash site spoke of a massive impact the explosion was so powerful they a