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Authorities Use Drone to Survey Plane Crash Site Outside Moscow

The Investigative Committee of Russia surveyed the site of a passenger plane crash using a drone on February 12. The plane went down in a field near the town of Stepanovskoye, in the Moscow Oblast, on February 11.

Seventy-one people were on board the plane, including six crew members, when it crashed shortly after departing from Moscow Domodedovo Airport toward Orsk, Siberia, the Ministry of Civil Defense said. The ministry said there were no survivors.

Updated details of the investigation were released by the ministry on Monday: “As of 17.00 on February 12, 2018, 27 hectares were inspected, more than 400 fragments of the aircraft were found, DNA samples were taken from 31 relatives. A second airborne recorder was found.”

A list of the passengers and crew was also released by the Ministry of Civil Defense. Credit: Investigative Committee of Russia via Storyful