An Airbus A-310 jet carrying three crew members but no passengers crashed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Tuesday, the Associated Press quoted emergency and airport officials as saying. The fate of the crew was unknown. The plane crashed upon takeoff in a snowstorm on a flight from Moscow to Berlin, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman said. The plane overturned while taking off and caught fire, air traffic controller Konstantin Fyodorov said on state-run television. Citing unidentified law enforcement officials, the Interfax news agency reported that the crew survived. Emergency officials could not immediately confirm the report.
