A private plane with presumably two Russians on board, which crashed in Germany on Sunday, was almost completely destroyed by fire, which complicates the identification of victims, regional police spokesman Bernd Hochstedter said. This reported by TASS.

"The aircraft burned down almost completely. Therefore, identification procedures will be more complicated than usual," the DPA news agency quoted him as saying.

The victims’ bodies still remain at the site of the crash due to the ongoing firefighting effort and the spill of kerosene. The wreckage is scattered within the 20-meter area surrounding the crash zone.

Earlier, the press service of S7 reported that the private Epic-LT plane en route from France’s Cannes crashed upon landing at Germany’s Egelsbach Airport (Frankfurt-am-Main). The circumstances of the crash are not known yet. The six-seat plane had three people on board: the pilot and two passengers, presumably Russian citizens. One of them was Natalia Fileva, the chair of the board of directors of Russia’s S7 Group,

According to the company, the investigation of the incident will be conducted by an international commission in the prescribed manner with the participation of the Russian aviation authorities.

An official with Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), the company in charge of air traffic control for Germany, told TASS that the pilot presumably lost control of the aircraft while performing a turn.

"I cannot say for sure what caused the tragedy, but I may presume that the pilot possibly lost control of the aircraft for some reason while performing a turn," he said, adding that the plane crashed "directly upon landing."

The official said the pilot steered the plane under the Visual Flight Rules (VFR), not instructions from DFS radars, which is a standard procedure when weather conditions are generally good and visibility is sufficient.

The pilot assumed manual control of the aircraft at 15:22 local time and informed the airport about initiating the landing sequence. Five minutes later, the plane crashed.

So far, DFS has been unable to confirm that Russian citizens were on board.

"At present, we have no information on how many passengers were on board and, therefore, there is nothing we can confirm in that regard," he said.

"We have launched an investigation and it will take some time," a BFU official said, adding that more information about people on board the aircraft may be revealed on Monday or Tuesday.