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Breaking news. Passenger plane with 49 people aboard goes missing in Russia’s Far East
According to preliminary data, 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members were on board. A search is underway.
A Russian passenger plane carrying 49 people disappeared off the radar over the Amur region in the country’s Far East, local officials said on Thursday.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the Antonov An-24 passenger plane, operated by Angara, a Siberia-based airline, when it was approaching its destination.
The flight departed from the city of Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border to the town of Tynda.
According to preliminary data, 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members were on board, regional governor Vasily Orlov said.
“All necessary forces and means have been deployed to search for the plane,” he wrote on Telegram.
This is a developing story and our journalists are working on further updates.