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Irish Times
5 days ago
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- Irish Times
Some 48 people, including 5 children, die after plane crashes in Russia
A Russian passenger plane carrying 48 people crashed in the country's far east on Thursday as it was preparing to land, killing everyone on board, the regional governor and investigators said. The burning fuselage of the Antonov An-24 plane, which was made in the Soviet era and was nearly 50 years old, was spotted on the ground by a helicopter. There were 42 passengers, including five children, and six crew members on board. Smoke rises from the crash site. Photograph: Russia Emergency Situations Ministry/AP Investigators said they had opened a criminal case into the suspected violation of air traffic and air transport rules, resulting in the death of more than two people through negligence. Video shot from a helicopter showed the plane came down in a densely forested area and pale smoke could be seen rising from the crash site. There were no roads to the site and a rescue team numbering over 100 people had to use heavy machinery to cut a path there. Vasily Orlov, the regional governor, offered his condolences to the families of those who died and declared three days of mourning, ordering flags to be lowered to half mast. 'I regret to inform you that, according to preliminary data, there are no survivors of the An-24 plane crash in the Tynda District. Rescuers have reached the crash site,' he said in a statement. The plane was on a flight by a privately owned Siberian-based regional airline called Angara. The aircraft's tail number showed it was built in 1976 and was operated by Soviet flag carrier Aeroflot before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. It was en route from the city of Blagoveshchensk to Tynda, a remote town and important railway junction in the Amur region bordering China, and dropped off radar screens while preparing to land. Debris from the plane was found on a hill around 15km (10 miles) from Tynda, the Interfax news agency quoted emergency service officials as saying. A representative from Angara told Reuters they could not offer any more details. The federal Russian government said it had set up a commission to deal with the aftermath of the crash and authorities announced an investigation into the cause. The Kremlin said president Vladimir Putin had been notified of the crash. At least one Chinese citizen was reported to have been on board and Chinese president Xi Jinping sent his condolences to Mr Putin over the crash. Angara airline is based in the Siberian city of Irkutsk and serves airports in Siberia and Russia's far east. It operates 10 An-24s built between 1972 and 1976, according to the RussianPlanes web-portal. It was one of two Siberian airlines that last year asked the Russian government to extend the service life of the Antonov aircraft, as Russian plane makers scramble to plug the gap left by an exodus of foreign manufacturers. Nicknamed 'flying tractors' by some, the propeller-driven An-24s are regarded as reliable workhorses by the Russian aviation industry and are well-suited to the harsh conditions in Siberia as they are able to operate in sub-zero conditions and don't have to land on runways. But airline executives, pilots and industry experts say the cost of maintaining the Antonovs – which make up a fraction of Russia's fleet of over 1,000 passenger planes – has increased after western sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine hit investment and access to parts. Many of the planes were due to be retired from service in the coming years, but mass production of the new Ladoga aircraft, the same class as the An-24, is not due to begin until 2027 at the earliest. – Reuters
BBC News
5 days ago
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- BBC News
Nobody survive afta plane wey carry 48 pipo crash for go down for Russian far east
Russian officials say 48 pipo na im die wen one Angara Airlines plane go down for one thick forest for di far-eastern region of Amur. Di Antonov An-24 plane, wey carry 42 passengers and six crew bin comot for Blagoveshchensk close to di Chinese border and just disappear from di radar screens as e dey approach Tynda airport, officials tok. Russian civil aviation helicopter den see fuselage wey dey burn from di plane on a remote hillside about 16km (10 miles) from Tynda. Amur regional governor Vasily Orlov say five children dey among those on board and e don declare three days of mourning. We dey updates dis tori
CBS News
5 days ago
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- CBS News
Plane crash in Russia's Far East kills all 48 on board, including 5 children, officials say
Moscow — Forty-eight people died in a plane crash in Russia's Far East, the head of the country's Amur region said in a statement Thursday. The An-24 passenger plane disappeared from radar as it travelled from the city of Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border to the town of Tynda. Rescuers later found the aircraft's burning wreckage amid dense forests on a hillside south of its planned destination. Regional Gov. Vasily Orlov said that all passengers and crew on board the Siberia-based Angara Airlines aircraft were killed in the crash. He also announced three days of mourning. Local emergency services said earlier that there were five children among the 49 people on the plane, which crashed about 4,350 miles east of Moscow. Images of the reported crash site circulated by Russian state media show debris scattered among dense forest, surrounded by plumes of smoke. Russia's Interfax news agency said there were adverse weather conditions at the time of the crash, citing unnamed sources in the emergency services. Several Russian news outlets also reported that the Anatov aircraft was almost 50 years old, citing data taken from the plane's tail number. The transport prosecutor's office in the Far East said in an online statement that the plane had attempted a second approach while trying to land when contact with it was lost. The authorities have launched a probe on the charge of flight safety violations that resulted in multiple deaths, a standard procedure in aviation accidents. Aviation incidents have been frequent in Russia, especially in recent years as international sanctions have squeezed the country's aviation sector.
National Post
5 days ago
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- National Post
Plane crashes in Russia's Far East with 49 people on board
MOSCOW — A passenger plane carrying 49 people, including five children, crashed in Russia's Far Eastern Amur region Thursday, local emergency services said. Russian news agencies said that an initial aerial inspection suggested there were no survivors. Article content Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said that they had found the burning fuselage of the Soviet-designed twin turbo prop plane on a hillside south of its planned destination in the town of Tynda, more than 7,000 kilometres east of Moscow. Article content Article content Images of the reported crash site circulated by Russian state media show debris scattered among dense forest, surrounded by plumes of smoke. Article content Article content In a video message posted Thursday evening local time, Amur regional Gov. Vasily Orlov said that rescuers had still been unable to reach the remote location where the plane crashed. The transport prosecutor's office in the Far East reported that the site of the crash was 15 kilometres south of Tynda. The office said in an online statement that the plane attempted a second approach while trying to land when contact with it was lost. Article content Forty-three passengers, including five children, as well as six crew members were on board the An-24 passenger plane as it traveled from the city of Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border to the town of Tynda, Orlov said. The plane had initially departed from Khabarovsk before making its way to Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border and onwards to Tynda. Article content Article content Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry reported that 48 people were on board the flight, which was operated by Siberia-based Angara Airlines. The reason for the discrepancy was not immediately clear. Article content Article content The authorities have launched a probe on the charge of flight safety violations that resulted in multiple deaths, a standard procedure in aviation accidents. Article content
The Guardian
5 days ago
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- The Guardian
Passenger plane crashes in Russia's far east with 49 people onboard feared dead
A passenger plane has crashed in Russia's far east after disappearing from radar, with 49 people on board feared dead, local officials have said. The flight, operated by Siberia-based Angara Airlines, vanished from radar on Thursday and lost contact with air traffic controllers while approaching its destination of Tynda, a remote town in the Amur region bordering China. An aerial inspection of the Soviet-era An-24 plane crash site found no survivors, the local emergency services told the state news agency, Tass. 'According to preliminary information, all onboard were killed. So far, the rescue helicopter has been unable to land at the crash site,' an unnamed emergency official said. Parts of the burning wreckage were discovered about 9 miles from Tynda airport on a mountainside, authorities said. Russian media published footage showing thick smoke rising above a dense forest at what was thought to be the crash site. The regional governor, Vasily Orlov, said that according to preliminary data, 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members were onboard. 'All necessary forces and means have been deployed to search for the plane,' he wrote on Telegram. Malfunction and human error were being considered as causes of the crash, the country's transport investigative committee said. The An-24 is a twin turboprop regional aircraft designed by the Soviet Union's Antonov Design Bureau in the late 1950s. Known for its ruggedness and ability to operate from unpaved runways, it was widely used in remote regions of Russia and central Asia. The Angara plane that crashed was built in 1976, making it nearly 50 years old, according to aircraft data. The crash on Thursday of the An‑24 in the Amur region marks Russia's first fatal passenger aviation incident since July 2021, when a Petropavlovsk‑Kamchatsky An‑26 went down near Palana, killing all 28 people onboard. But Russia has seen a rise in non-fatal mechanical failures on passenger planes since the start of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine as western sanctions have damaged its aviation industry, with dozens of foreign jets seized and access to vital spare parts cut off. Sign up to Headlines Europe A digest of the morning's main headlines from the Europe edition emailed direct to you every week day after newsletter promotion Russia has struggled to replace both its outdated Soviet-era fleet and its modern western aircraft such as Boeing and Airbus with domestically produced alternatives. In 2023, representatives of several regional airlines appealed for an extension of the An-24's service life, citing difficulties replacing the ageing aircraft because of sanctions. An analysis by the Russian independent outlet Agentstvo shows that the aircraft had experienced at least two technical malfunctions since 2022. In May 2022, the generator failed mid-flight, and in March this year, the crew was forced to request a return to the parking area owing to radio communication issues during a flight from Irkutsk to Kirensk.
