Summary
Russian rescue teams have found the wreckage of a plane carrying 49 people that went missing in the Amur region, 10 miles from Tynda airport. The plane was an Angara airlines An-24 aircraft on its final approach when it disappeared from radar.
Key Facts
- The plane had 43 passengers and 6 crew members on board.
- It disappeared 16 kilometers (10 miles) from its destination at Tynda airport.
- The flight had taken off from Blagoveshchensk, near the Chinese border.
- Five children were among the people on the plane.
- The plane's wreckage was found burning on a hillside by a Russian civil aviation helicopter.
- Rescuers are on their way to the site where the wreckage was found.
- The An-24 was on the last part of a journey from Khabarovsk, located in Russia's far southeast.
