A plane with 22 passengers and six crew members went missing on Tuesday in the Russian Far East region’s Kamchatka peninsula, AP reported, citing local officials.
The Antonov An-26 aircraft was flying from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the town of Palana. A local official said that the plane missed a scheduled communication and lost contact about 10 kilometers away from Palana’s airport. It also disappeared from the radar at the same time, the local transport ministry said to news agencies.
The head of the local government in Palana, Olga Mokhireva, was aboard the flight, AP reported quoted spokespeople of the Kamchatka government.
There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited rescue officials as saying, Reuters reported.
The regional governor Vladimir Solodov told the Interfax news agency that the wreckage of the plane was found near the village of Palana in Kamchatka.
“Presumably, during the go-around, a catastrophe occurred. Debris was found, which, presumably, may belong to the aircraft, – specialists are sent to the area where the debris was found to examine them and give a final conclusion on the ownership of the wreckage,” the Interfax news agency reported, citing the head of the region.
The Federal Air Transport Agency told reporters that, according to the operational groups, the crash site was discovered at 12:06. The plane crashed four to five kilometers from the runway of the Palana airfield near the coastline in Kamchatka.
Reports claimed that the plane had crashed into the sea as it was preparing to land, but there was no official confirmation on it yet.
The plane belonged to the Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise. The aircraft has been operational since October 20, 1982, and its certificate of worthiness was due to expire on August 30, 2021, reported Russian news agency TASS.
The plane was on approach for landing when contact was lost about 10 kilometers (six miles) away from Palana’s airport, local media reported.
(With agency inputs)
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