World IN BRIEF : RUSSIA : Engine Failure Cited in Fatal Jet Crash

Engine failure apparently caused the crash of a passenger jet in southern Tajikistan in which at least 35 people were killed, news agencies reported. Five people survived. The plane, operated by the state air company Tochikiston, went down near the border with Afghanistan while taking off in Khorog en route to the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. One crash survivor, the flight engineer, told authorities that the plane crashed because of engine failure. It was the second fatal crash of a passenger plane in the former Soviet Union this week. On Thursday, a plane carrying 24 people crashed in the Russian city of Aldan in eastern Siberia, killing everyone aboard.