A Russian passenger plane carrying 71 people has crashed outside Moscow after taking off from the capital's Domodedovo airport, killing all of those on board, Russian media has reported.
Russia's transport prosecutor has confirmed that all of those travelling on board the flight were killed.
There were 65 passengers and six crew members on board the plane which went missing from radars less than ten minutes after taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo airport, TASS reported.
The plane - a short-haul regional Antonov AN-148 - was bound for the Russian city of Orsk in the Orenburg region that borders Kazakhstan.
Russian state TV channel Rossiya-24 showed footage of fragments of the plane in a snow-covered field.
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"Debris has been found, there are no survivors," TASS quoted a source as saying.
Two bodies have so far been found at the crash site, according to an emergency services official.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash. The Russian Transport Ministry was considering various possible reasons, including weather conditions and pilot error, Interfax news agency said.
The Russian-made plane was seven years old and bought by Saratov Airlines from another Russian airline one year ago.
Russian media reported that the emergency services were unable to reach the crash site by road and that rescue workers walked to the scene on foot.
The governor of the Orenburg region, where the plane was flying to, told Russian media that "more than 60 people" on board the plane were from the region.
Prosecutors have opened an investigation into Saratov Airlines following the crash.
