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Russian rescue services have found the wreckage of a plane that disappeared about 16km (10 miles) from its destination in the far-eastern Amur region.<\/p>\n
The Angara airlines An-24 plane, carrying 42 passengers and six crew, had left Blagoveshchensk close to the Chinese border and vanished from radar screens as it approached Tynda airport, officials said. <\/p>\n
Amur’s regional governor Vasily Orlov said “all necessary resources” had been deployed to find the plane. Five children were among those on board, he added.<\/p>\n
Shortly afterwards Russia’s emergencies ministry said a Russian civil aviation helicopter had spotted burning fuselage from the plane. No-one is thought to have survived, reports say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Amur’s civil defence centre said the plane had been found on a hillside about 16km (10 miles) from Tynda, Tass news agency reported.<\/p>\n
Footage from the scene showed wreckage from the plane burning in dense woodland and rescuers said it would take them about an hour to reach the site.<\/p>\n
Preliminary inquiries are looking at either pilot error in poor weather conditions or technical malfunction, according to emergency officials.<\/p>\n
The An-24 plane had been on the final leg of a route from Khabarovsk in the far south-east of Russia.<\/p>\n
The Angara airlines Antonov 24 plane is reported to be almost 50 years old, and has had trouble in the past.<\/p>\n
Although officials said the plane had passed a recent technical inspection, civil aviation authority told news agencies it had been involved in four incidents since 2018.<\/p>\n
Other An-24 planes have been involved in fatal crashes too.<\/p>\n
An An-24RV veered off the runway as it landed at Nizhneangarsk Airport in July 2019. Two members of the flight crew were killed.<\/p>\n
In 2011, another Angara An-24 crashed into the Ob river in Siberia, killing seven passengers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n