Air TransportAn Angara Airlines Antonov An-24 turboprop crashed in the Tynda region with 49 people on board, including six crew members and five children. According to preliminary information, there were no survivors.
The regional aircraft had taken off from Blagoveshchensk, in the Amur Region, in Russia’s far east and near the Chinese border.
According to initial Russian media reports, wreckage was found on a hillside 10 miles from Tynda, its final destination.
Video footage recorded by a search helicopter shows the wreckage scattered across a large forested area (see below).
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“The wreckage of the plane was discovered from the air over a large area. All of it is in mountainous and wooded areas, and access to it is difficult,” said a source from the TASS news agency.
The An-24, registration RA-47315, was on the final leg of the flight HZ2311 that stopped in Khabarovsk.
Russian media reported that the nearly 50-year-old aircraft had undergone routine checks and was in safe flying condition, despite its history of incidents.
According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, the crashed An-24 was involved in an incident in 2018, when it overshot the taxiway at Irkutsk Airport and suffered a destroyed left wingtip after hitting a lighting mast.
Two Previous An-24 Accidents
Angara Airlines is an airline founded in 2000 and operates from Irkust International Airport, with a network throughout Siberia.
Its fleet consists of Antonov turboprops, although it also has five An-148 jets in unknown condition.
Two An-24 turboprops were lost in accidents in 2011 and 2019, with some occupants killed.
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