An Antonov AN-12 crashed shortly after take off about four kilometers from Moscow on Sunday, all seven crew members being killed, Russian officials informed.

The plane belonging to the cargo carrier Atran was reportedly loaded with approximately ten tons of cargo and took off from the Domodedevo airport en-route for Bratsk, with a stop-over in Omsk, but for still unknown reasons plummeted in a forested area.

Due to the full fuel tanks, the aircraft immediately bursted into flames and left no chances of survival for any crew member. No other casualties or damage were reported, as emergency teams cleared the site and retrieved the machine’s black box containing flight records.

“The plane fell into a forested area. Neither loss of life, nor destruction has been reported. The rescue work has been completed,” Emergency Situations spokesman Viktor Beltsov said.

The plane was manufactured back in 1964 and was due to be taken out of service later this year in November. Overload was ruled out by the authorities in the preliminary investigations that will determine the accident’s cause, because the maximum load for this type of plane is 20 tons and the crashed aircraft was well bellow that threshold.

The AN-12 four-engine turboprop transport planes were built during the late 1950s for both military, commercial and civilian use, with approximately 100 machines still in use across the world.