As of Friday morning the Emergency Situations Ministry said that it had recovered 14 bodies.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash-landing, Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Inna Sedova told The Associated Press.
Almost 1, 000 people sought medical attention, mostly for cuts from flying glass, and 43 were hospitalized, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
Vadim Belovoshin from the emergency situations ministry official told the Itar-TASS news agency that the windows in the hospital were barred but said there were two fire escapes.
According to the Emergency Situations ministry, in the first nine months of 2012 more than 7, 700 people were killed by fires compared with more than 12, 000 in the whole of 2011 and more than 15, 000 in 2008.
The search was hampered, Dr. Grokhovsky said, by officials of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, which sealed off the area around an 25-foot-wide hole in the ice of Lake Chebarkul, near Chelyabinsk, where a chunk was believed to have fallen.
Dr. Grokhovsky said the search was hampered by officials of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, which sealed off the area around an 8-meter-wide hole in the ice of Lake Chebarkul, near Chelyabinsk, where a chunk of the meteor was believed to have fallen.
Several clergymen, police officers and agents of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations are outside the cave.
The plane was arriving at Vnukovo International Airport from the Czech Republic when it crashed through a fence, Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
Vladimir Stepanov, of the National Center for Emergency Situations at the Russian Interior Ministry, earlier told state media that hospitals, kindergartens and schools were among those affected.
Hospitals, kindergartens and schools were among the buildings affected by the blast, said Vladimir Stepanov, of the National Center for Emergency Situations at the Russian Interior Ministry.
Around 35 bodies have been recovered out of the River out of the 42 on board, including 8 crew members, according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Emercom.
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