Moscow ( CNN ) -- A twin-engine plane carrying 43 people crashed soon after takeoff in Siberia on Monday , killing all but 12 people on board , Russia 's Emergency Situations Ministry said . The plane had taken off from the city of Tyumen and traffic control lost contact with it immediately afterward , the ministry said . The ATR-72 plane was carrying 39 passengers and four crew members . UTair , the flight operator , said the plane was trying to make an emergency landing when it went down , the RIA-Novosti news agency said . Twelve survivors were taken to hospitals , while everyone else on board , including all four crew members , was killed , ministry said . The survivors were in intensive care , RIA-Novosti said . Authorities could not say with certainty what caused the crash . Officials have recovered the plane 's data recorders , which will help shed light on what happened in the flight 's final minutes . `` Malfunction and pilot 's error are considered to be the most likely causes , '' Vladimir Markin , a spokesman for the Russian Investigation Committee , told the Itar-Tass news agency . Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has postponed a meeting with the opposition light of the crash , his spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said . Specialists from France , Canada and Great Britain will take part in the crash investigation , the Itar-Tass news agency reported , citing the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee . The plane was built in France and was registered in Britain . The engine was produced in Canada , the agency said . The crash was the the country 's deadliest air disaster since a crash in Yaroslavl that killed 44 people in September . Dozens of Yaroslavl Lokomotiv professional hockey players died in that crash , including several former National Hockey League players . Only one person survived the crash , which investigators found was caused by pilot error , RIA-Novosti reported . CNN 's Alla Eshchenko contributed to this report .
NEW : Experts from Russia , France and Britain will help investigate . The twin-engine plane crashes soon after takeoff , carrying 12 people . The cause of the crash was not immediately known . The crash is Yaroslavl 's worst air disaster since a crash in Britain last year .