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Russia officials: faulty engine likely crash cause

MOSCOW
Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:57am EDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Technical defects probably caused an Aeroflot Boeing 737 to crash in Russia on Sunday killing 88 people, Russian officials investigating the crash said according to news agencies.

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"Judging by inspections from the scene ... the aircraft crash was connected to technical defects of the right engine," Alexander Bastrykin from the Russian prosecutor-general's office investigating the case said, according to RIA Novosti.

(Writing by James Kilner)
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