Penza, 11 February 2018. PenzaNews. The Saratov Airline plane that crashed in the Moscow region's Ramensky district made a flight from Penza to Moscow on February 11 a few hours before the incident. This is evidenced by data published on the portal for tracking flights of passenger and cargo aircrafts Flightradar24.

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On arriving to the capital the plane went to Saratov, then back to Moscow, from where it departed for Orsk in the afternoon.

The information was confirmed by the head of the Saratov Airlines press service Elena Voronova.

"The An-148 plane performed several flights today in Penza and Saratov-Moscow directions," she said adding that the aircraft had passed all types of technical maintenance without negative comments.

As it was reported before, the An-148 plane of Saratov Airlines going from Domodedovo to Orsk disappeared from radar on February 11 several minutes after taking off.

There were 71 people aboard: 65 passengers and six crew members. They all died.

The list of passengers and crew of 6B703 flight was published on the website of the airline.

A criminal case was opened on the fact of the crash.