In the East Russian region of Amur, burning wreckage of a passenger plane has been found. According to the Russian state press agency TASS, all of the at least forty occupants have died. The plane was en route to Tynda, near the Chinese border.
It concerns an Antonov An-24 passenger plane from the Siberian airline Angara. According to the regional governor, there were 43 passengers on board, including five children, and six crew members. The ministry involved reports that there were fewer people on the plane, approximately forty.
The plane was en route from Khabarovsk via Blagoveshchensk to Tynda. Just before the plane was about to land there, air traffic control lost contact.
Not much later, wreckage of the plane was found on a mountainside, about 15 kilometers away from the airport in Tynda. Among other things, the fuselage of the plane was on fire.
According to initial reports from the emergency services, there are no survivors, reports TASS.