Moscow: A couple from near Perumbavoor in Kerala was among the 62 people killed on Saturday in a plane crash in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don city, officials said. The FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 from Dubai missed the runway as it attempted to land at 3.50 am. The couple — Shyam Mohan and his wife KA Anju, both aged 27 — worked in an ayurvedic resort in Russia and had left from here on Thursday.

Russian Emergency Ministry employees are seen among the wreckage of a crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday. Pic/PTI