Russia says Putin won't die in a plane crash because their domestic aircraft 'are very reliable vehicles'

• Recent aviation accidents have claimed the lives of Iran's president and Malawi's vice president. 
• But Russia says Vladimir Putin is safe if he travels on their "very reliable" domestic aircraft.
• Russian flight safety incidents have more than doubled in the past year, per JACDEC.

A Russian official says the country's leader, Vladimir Putin, won't get caught in a plane crash if he travels on domestic aircraft, state news agency TASS reported on Tuesday.

"The Russian president uses domestic aircraft. These are very reliable vehicles," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists.