(Bloomberg) -- An Aeroflot plane on a domestic Russian flight made a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetevo Airport, killing 41 people.

Flight SU1492 to Murmansk, a Sukhoi Superjet, suffered an engine fire after technical problems forced it to return to Moscow on Sunday, Aeroflot said in a statement. The plane, with 73 passengers and five crew members aboard, made a hard landing after which a fire broke out, the airport said on its website.

The number of fatalities was confirmed at a briefing early Monday by Elena Markovskaya, a spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the Associated Press reported.

Video on Russian broadcaster RT’s website showed the plane speeding down the runway with its tail on fire and flames engulfing the rear after it came to a stop on the tarmac.

The plane took off from Moscow on schedule at 6:02 p.m. and returned to land at 6:30 p.m. after the crew reported a mid-air malfunction, according to the airport website.

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