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Russian investigators: All aboard passenger plane in Far East crash dead
Russia's Investigative Committee says all people on board a passenger plane that crashed in the country's Far Eastern region of Amur have died. The region's governor says it was carrying 48 people, not 49 as he initially announced.
Russian media reported that the plane, operated by local carrier Angara Airlines, went down on Thursday.
The Antonov An-24 aircraft lost contact with air traffic control shortly after 1 p.m. local time, while flying north from Blagoveshchensk, a major city in Amur, to Tynda, about 700 kilometers away.
The state-run TASS news agency reported that the crash site was on a mountainside 16 kilometers from Tynda.
Aerial footage released by aviation authorities shows white smoke rising from a forest and what appears to be the wreckage of the plane.
