Passenger Jet With 49 Onboard Crashes in Russia's Far East
The plane, a Soviet-era Antonov An-24 with 43 passengers and six crew members, was traveling to the small town of Tynda from Blagoveshchensk, near the border with China, when it went off the radar, Vasily Orlov, the regional governor, said in a statement.
The flight was operated by Angara Airlines, a small carrier based in Irkutsk, eastern Siberia.
The plane lost touch with the control tower after it failed to land and was about to make a second approach to the small airfield in Tynda, regional prosecutors told the Tass news agency. There was no mayday call and no technical failures were reported, it said.
Rescue teams on helicopters have been dispatched to the wooded area outside Tynda, which is difficult to reach by land.
Russia's ministry of emergency situations and Mr. Orlov, the regional governor, confirmed that the rescuers found the crash site about an hour after the initial reports. The state-owned Rossiya-24 channel said the burning wreckage was located in the woods at the foot of a mountain about 10 miles from Tynda.
Rescue teams have not been able to make a safe landing and gain access to the wreckage scattered in the forest because of the challenging terrain and strong winds, Russian state news agencies reported.
The plane was reportedly manufactured some 50 years ago and was fully certified, Tass said, citing unnamed aviation officials.
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