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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 | 8:15 p.m.

Ukraine Examines Wreckage of Deadly Plane Crash

The mangled wreckage of a passenger plane in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The aircraft was carrying 45 crew and passengers, mainly football fans going to attend a Champions League match between Shaktar Donestsk and Germany's Borussia Dortmund. But their journey ended in tragedy when the plane caught the meteorological tower with one wing and hit the floor with its other wing. Five people died in the crash. Twenty six people were injured - among them the pilot Sergiy Malashenko.
 
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