Plane crash in Siberia kills 31 of 43 on board

Rescue workers have found at least 22 survivors among 47 people aboard a passenger plane that crashed Monday in southeastern Venezuela, officials said.Francisco Rangel Gomez, governor of the southeastern Venezuela state of Bolivar where the crash occurred, said rescuers found the survivors shortly after arriving at the scene of Monday's crash.The Conviasa Airline plane was en route to the resort city of Isla Margarita when it went down about six miles (10 kilometers) from Puerto Ordaz carrying 43 passengers and four crew.

MOSCOW — A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia’s third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four people. Officials said there were eight people aboard the Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings that was flying back from the Czech Republic without passengers to its home at Vnukovo Airport.

Rescuers in Nepal said Thursday they hold out little hope of finding any survivors after a passenger plane crashed in a remote mountainous area with 22 people on board, including one American.The Twin Otter plane smashed into a mountainside shortly after taking off from a small airstrip in eastern Nepal bound for the capital Kathmandu, 140 kilometres (90 miles) to the west. The cause of the crash is not yet known.