The building of the Russian Embassy in Beijing. Archival photo BEJING, May 12. The Russian Embassy in China is investigating whether there were Russian citizens on board the plane that caught fire at the airport in the city of Chongqing in the southwest of China, Georgy Yegorov, press officer of the embassy, told RIA Novosti on Thursday «The embassy is investigating whether there were Russian citizens on board,» the diplomat said. The passenger plane of Tibet Airlines, operating flight TV9833 from Chongqing to the Nyingchi urban district of the Tibet Autonomous Region, on Thursday at 8.09 local time (3.09 Moscow time) during takeoff went off the runway and caught fire at the Jiangbei airport in Chongqing. There were 113 passengers and 9 crew members on board, all of them are safe, but more than 40 people were injured and were hospitalized. The cause of the accident has not yet been established, and an investigation is underway. This is the second major aviation accident in China this year. Previously, a Boeing 737 operating flight MU5735 from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed on March 21 in Teng County, Wuzhou City in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. There were 132 people on board (all Chinese citizens), including 123 passengers and nine crew members, all of whom were declared dead. Possible reasons for the crash of the liner, which has been in use since 2015, are not yet known. Experts continue to investigate the discovered «black boxes». The crash of the Boeing 737 was the largest air disaster in China in 11.5 years, until that moment, the civil aviation of China had been carrying out safe flights for 138 consecutive months.A plane with 11 passengers on board crashed in Cameroon
