Plane with 49 people on board crashes in Russia's far east
The aircraft - which had 43 passengers including five children, and six crew on board - was flying from the city Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border to the town of Tynda, regional governor Vasily Orlov said.
There were no survivors, news agency TASS reported, adding an error during landing in poor visibility as a reason for the crash in the eastern part of the Amur region.
The plane's burning fuselage was found by a rescue helicopter, emergency officials said.
The An-24 passenger jet disappeared from radar over the area, local officials said earlier. It was operated by the Angara airline, according to the SHOT news agency.
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