All passengers, including crew members, aboard the Serbia-based Angara airlines plane are feared dead in the deadly crash.
The wreckage of the Russian passenger plane, which crashed with 49 people on board, has been found in Russia’s Far East, local emergency services said.
The crash reportedly left behind no survivors. Visuals from the crash site show the plane’s debris in the dense forest, with plumes of smoke rising from it.
“An Mi-8 helicopter operated by Rosaviatsiya (Russia’s civil aviation authority) has spotted the burning fuselage of the aircraft,” Russia’s emergencies ministry said on Telegram, Reuters reported.
Visuals from the helicopter, assessing the crash site in the dense forest, show visible smoke arising from afar. As it nears above the crash site, the scattered debris of the aircraft can be seen.
The weather conditions in the area were difficult, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported, citing sources. The crash was caused by a crew error during landing in poor visibility, TASS news agency reported.
Plane tried 2nd approach
According to the transport prosecutor’s office in the Far East, the crash site was just 15 kilometres south of Tynda. In an online statement, it said that the plane tried a second approach while trying to land when it lost contact with the office.
Regional Governor Vasily Orlov said that 43 passengers, including five children, as well as six crew members, were onboard the An-24 passenger plane, which was flying from Blagoveshchensk, on the Russian-Chinese border, to Tynda.
An investigation has been launched over flight safety violations that resulted in multiple deaths, a procedure standard in aviation accidents.
This is the third deadly aviation accident across the world within a span of two months. Earlier on June 12, an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft carrying 242 passengers crashed into the hostel complex of a medical college in Ahmedabad in India’s Gujarat, killing all but one. Additionally, 19 others present on the ground at the time of the crash also lost their lives.
Just this week, on Monday, a Bangladesh Air Force trainee aircraft crashed into a school and college complex in northern Dhaka’s Uttara region, with the death toll standing at 31. Several others also suffered serious burn injuries and wounds in the tragic accident.
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