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Two people killed in light aircarft crash near Moscow

June 9, 2013 RBTH, Interfax
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Two people were killed in a light aircraft crash outside Moscow, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry told Interfax.

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The two persons aboard the light plane were killed when the plane crashed near the village of Pyatnitsa in the Krasnogorsk district of Moscow Region, it said.

Another source said the air disaster occurred in the Solnechnogorsk district on Sunday.

A source in the rescue operation HQ told Interfax that, "the plane entered the flat spin as it was gaining height, and came down."

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