This handout picture taken and realeased on May 6, 2019 by the Investigative Committee of Russia shows an investigator as he works at a site of a fire of a Russian-made Superjet-100 at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow. PHOTO BY HO / RUSSIAN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITEE / AFP

MOSCOW: The pilot of a Russian passenger plane that erupted in a ball of fire on the runway of Moscow's busiest airport, killing 41 people, said lightning led to the emergency landing.

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