Plane Crash Near Moscow – level 2

14-02-2018 07:00

A plane took off from a Moscow, Russia, airport, and it was flying to Orsk, which is a city near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.

Shortly after the take-off, the plane disappeared from radars and then crashed just 40 kilometres from the airport. Seventy-one people were on board and no one survived. Witnesses said that the plane was inflames as it fell from the sky.

People are investigating the incident.

Difficult words: disappear (stop existing), radar (a device that can record things that are far away), inflames (on fire).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.

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