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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n The Russian passenger plane<\/a> that went missing in the eastern parts of the Amur<\/a> region has been found crashed near the town of Tynda, emergency services<\/a> told Interfax. There are no survivors, preliminary data indicated.<\/p>\n \u201cFifteen kilometre from Tynda, the wreckage of an An-24 was found on a slope. The plane was destroyed,\u201d the Russian emergencies ministry was quoted as saying by the news agency.<\/p>\n Earlier, it was reported that the An-24 passenger plane<\/a> carrying nearly 50 people had gone missing in the Amur<\/a> region.<\/p>\n Crew error during landing in poor visibility is being considered a possible cause of the Russian passenger plane crash in the Amur region, according to Tass news agency.<\/p>\n The Angara Airlines An-24 took off from Khabarovsk as scheduled on Thursday at 7.36am local time (00.36 Moscow time), according to the airport\u2019s press service. The aircraft was operating on the Khabarovsk\u2013Blagoveshchensk\u2013Tynda route but vanished from radar and stopped responding to calls just a few kilometres from Tynda airport.<\/p>\n \u201cThe An-24 plane was flying along the Khabarovsk-Blagoveshchensk-Tynda route. It failed to pass security checks near its final destination. There is no contact with it,\u201d the emergencies ministry<\/a> earlier said.<\/p>\n Regional governor Vasily Orlov said on Telegram that initial reports indicated the Siberia-based airline called Angara was carrying 43 passengers, including five children, along with six crew members onboard. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAll necessary forces and means have been deployed to search for the plane,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Interfax reported that the plane vanished during a second landing attempt, after an initial approach to Tynda airport was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n A source was quoted as saying by Tass news agency: \u201cAn An-24 operated by Angara Airlines failed to make contact at a designated checkpoint a few kilometres from Tynda Airport.\u201d<\/p>\n Tynda is located approximately 6,600km east of Moscow.<\/p>\n Last year in September, a Robinson R66 helicopter with three people on board went missing in Russia<\/a>\u2019s Amur<\/a> region during an unregistered flight over the Zeya district in the northeastern part of the Amur<\/a> region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-287375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114907133148606117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}