A Russian cargo plane crashed Sunday minutes after taking off from a Moscow airport, killing all seven crew on board, officials said. The An-12 four-engine turboprop belonging to the private Atran carrier went down at 4:22 am local time (0022 GMT), just after taking off from the Domodedovo airport southeast of Moscow, Russian Emergency Situations spokesman Viktor Beltsov said. The plane slammed into a field, shattering debris over a wide area. There was no damage on the ground, Beltsov said. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
