Russian media: All people aboard passenger plane feared dead in Far East crash
Russian media reported that the plane operated by local carrier Angara Airlines went down on Thursday.
The aircraft, an Antonov An-24, lost contact with air traffic control shortly after 1 p.m. local time, while flying north from Blagoveshchensk, a major city in Amur, to Tynda, about 700 kilometers away.
The regional governor said 43 passengers and six crew members were on board.
TASS reported that the crash site was in a forest area 16 kilometers from Tynda.
Aerial footage released by aviation authorities shows white smoke rising from a forest and what appears to be wreckage of the plane.
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