A jet crashed in south Russia on Friday, killing two on board, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said.

The Yak-52 belonging to Russia's Aviation Lovers Federation crashed two kilometers from the southern Russia city of Stavropol at 2:00 p.m. Moscow time (1000 GMT).

"There were no fatalities or damage on the ground," an emergencies official was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

(Xinhua News Agency September 16, 2006)