Russia officials say faulty engine likely crash cause

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Technical defects probably caused an Aeroflot Boeing 737 to crash in Russia on Sunday killing 88 people, Russian officials investigating the crash said according to news agencies.

"Judging by inspections from the scene ... the aircraft crash was connected to technical defects of the right engine," Alexander Bastrykin from the Russian prosecutor-general's office investigating the case said, according to RIA Novosti.

(Writing by James Kilner)