Plane Crash Kills 49 in Azerbaijan
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<i> Reuters</i>
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Forty-nine people were killed and 33 injured when an airliner crashed Tuesday night in Azerbaijan’s enclave of Nakhichevan, a government commission investigating the accident said today. Initial reports had put the death toll at 10.
The commission said the twin-engined TU-134 went down shortly after takeoff from the enclave’s capital, also called Nakhichevan. It said the probable cause of the crash was engine failure.
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