01 November,2009 10:39 AM IST | | Agencies
A Russian interior ministry plane with 11 crewmembers on board crashed several minutes after taking off in Yakutia, authorities said on Sunday.
"All 11 people died in the air crash," a spokesman for the ministry's regional centre said.
The spokesman said the plane, an Il-76 Candid strategic airlifter, bound for the city of Irkutsk, fell and caught fire about three kilometres from Mirny airport.
Seven crew as well as four members from a replacement crew were on board.
