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A passenger jet traveling from Moscow crashed near residential buildings as it was preparing to land in central Russia early Sunday, killing all 88 people aboard, officials said.

Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said there was no indication of terrorism in the crash of the Boeing-737-500, which went down on the outskirts of the city of Perm at about 3:15 a.m. local time.

BISHKEK, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A Kyrgyz passenger plane crashed outside the capital Bishkek on Sunday and 25 people of the 90 people on board have survived, Kyrgyzstan's emergencies minister said.

The plane, chartered by an Iranian company and heading for Tehran, crashed soon after take off, a spokeswoman for Manas airport, 30 km (20 miles) from Bishkek, said.

"It took off and reported a technical problem and tried to return to the airport," the spokeswoman said.

The flight was run by private Kyrgyz company Itek-Air, she said.

A Korean Air Lines Co Ltd  plane made an emergency landing at an airport on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido on Thursday, but no one was injured.

Television showed the plane landing smoothly in misty weather at Shin Chitose airport, after the airline said it planned to divert there on its way to its intended destination of New York.

The plane dumped fuel in the ocean and changed course after a cockpit indicator showed a problem with a power source, a spokesman for Japan's Transport Ministry said.

Airbus SAS won a $7.2 billion aircraft order from South Korea's Asiana Airlines Inc. as the European planemaker extended its lead over Boeing Co. for business at the Farnborough International Air Show.

Airbus, the world's largest manufacturer of commercial planes, and No. 2 Boeing have accumulated orders valued at just more than $50 billion at the show as Middle Eastern and Asian carriers, as well as leasing companies, make up for slackening demand from U.S. and European airlines hurt by surging oil prices and slowing economies.

July 2 (Bloomberg) -- British Airways Plc agreed to buy Paris-based L'Avion for 54 million pounds ($108 million) to enlarge its new OpenSkies unit, expanding flights between France and the U.S. under an international treaty introduced in March.

L'Avion, which began flying in January last year, will be integrated into OpenSkies after the deal is completed this month, London-based British Airways said in a statement today. The purchase from private investors includes 26 million pounds of cash.

Six people were killed and one was seriously injured on Sunday when two medical helicopters collided on their way to a hospital in Flagstaff, Arizona, air officials said.

The helicopters crashed near Flagstaff at about 3.45 p.m. PDT (2245 GMT), said Ian Gregor, a spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration in Los Angeles.

A provisional EU deal on making airlines pay for their CO2 emissions is unaffordable for an industry already hurting from high fuel prices, the International Air Carrier Association (IACA) said on Thursday.

A European Union source earlier said member states had struck a provisional deal with lawmakers over details of including aviation from 2012 in the EU's Emission Trading Scheme (ETS).

The ETS sets a cap on emissions and forces companies to buy permits for some or all the CO2 they emit above that limit.

Air France-KLM  and three other foreign airlines agreed to pay fines totaling $504 million to settle U.S. price-fixing charges involving vast shipments of consumer goods ranging from electronics to medicines, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

The plea deal was the latest in a series of airline cargo price-fixing settlements and boosted the total fines from the U.S. antitrust investigation to a record $1.27 billion.

Scandinavian airline SAS  said on Thursday it agreed to pay a $52 million fine in relation to a U.S. probe involving its cargo subsidiary.

The airline, half-owned by Sweden, Norway and Denmark, said the terms of a plea agreement with the Department of Justice in the United States related to conduct from February 2002 through February 2006.

SAS said the European Commission was running a parallel probe that would probably be completed in late 2008.