6 die, 26 hurt when plane misses runway
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An airliner came down short of a runway in heavy fog, bouncing and then flipping onto its back. Six people were killed and 26 injured, the government said.
Prosecutors investigating the crash in the central city of Samara said bad weather and pilot error were the most likely causes.
The plane was a Tu-134 passenger jet owned by Russian airline UTAir. Transport officials have ordered the aging Tu-134 to be gradually phased out of civilian use over the next five years.
The plane, carrying 50 passengers and seven crew members, was flying from the Siberian city of Surgut to the western city of Belgorod with a stop in Samara, about 550 miles southeast of Moscow.
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