The rescue services found on fire the remains of the AN-24 passenger plane that disappeared on Wednesday from the radars at the end Russian Eastwhen approaching the city of Tynda (Amur province), its destination point.
“A MI-8 helicopter that participates in the search work spotted the fuselage of the plane. It is on fire,” Russia’s ministry for emergency situations said.
⚡A A-24 passenger plane disappeared from the radars during a flight that made in the Russian province of Amur, in the Far East https://t.co/qwqdkdwjvu
49 people are aboard the aircraft. pic.twitter.com/rlrsqafvpc
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The plane was found on the slope of a mountain, in an area of difficult access, emergency services reported Sputnik. According to this medium there are no survivors.
The governor of Amur, Vasili Orlov, said that in the AN-24, which operated a flight from Blago surroundschensk to Tinda, there were 49 people: 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members.
The aircraft, a turboheric bimotor, belonging to the Agará company.
According to AFPcontact with the device was lost around 13h00, while making a “second attempt” of landing at the Tinda airport.
Airport authorities cited by Tass They indicated that the plane had been manufactured in 1976 and its navigability certificate had spread in 2021 to 2036.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry finally died to the occupants of the passenger plane. In total, 149 specialists worked in the incident.
Airplane and helicopter accidents are frequent in the Russian Eastern end, an unworthy and remote region, where many paths must be made by air given the huge distances.
At the end of August 2024, 22 people died when a MI-8 helicopter from Soviet conception crashed in Kamchatka.
