The latest incident began Sunday, when 15 prisoners were being transported from Neryungry, 3,100 miles east of Moscow, to the nearby city of Yakutsk in eastern Siberia.
The accident occurred late Wednesday as the Ilyushin-62 flying from Moscow tried to land at Yakutsk, the government newspaper Izvestia said.
All gold and scarlet with aggressively modernist pictures of the jolliest tractor plant somewhere near Yakutsk.