Ukrainian rescuers have found Russia's crashed Tupolev Tu-154 plane 40 kilometers northwest of Donetsk in a hard-to-reach area, Ihor Krol, ...
The plane...is ablaze... rescuers... including fire brigades, are heading to the crash site.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11575790
Flight 612...The three-engine Tu-154 is the workhorse of Russia's commercial fleet, carrying about half of all Russian air passengers...designed as the Soviet counterpart to the Boeing 727 and the European-made Trident, but with the added ability to operate from short, rough runways. About 1,000 were produced...involved in at least 30 air disasters since it went into service in 1968.http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/22/russia.crash/