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Times
5 hours ago
- General
- Times
Russian passenger plane carrying 49 crashes in Far East region
Rescuers have located the burning wreckage of a passenger aircraft that disappeared from radar screens with 49 people on board as it approached a town in the Russian Far East. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the An-24 turbo-prop at about 1pm local time— thought to be carrying 43 passengers and six crew — as it approached Tynda in the Amur region, which borders China. Russian state news agencies cited the Ministry of Emergency Situations and local officials as saying a search helicopter had discovered a burning fuselage on a slope about ten miles (16km) from Tynda. The helicopter was unable to land and rescue personnel were making their way to the site on foot. The aerial inspection found no sign of survivors at the crash site, and everyone on board the plane was expected to have died, emergency officials said. Vasily Orlov, the Amur governor, earlier said that according to preliminary data there were five children among the passengers. 'All necessary forces and means have been deployed to search for the plane,' he wrote on the Telegram messaging app. The An-24, which had a tail number dating it to 1976, was operated by the Siberia-based Angara Airlines. It had taken off from the city of Blagoveshchensk and apparently crashed when it was making a second approach to the runway in Tynda, after a first attempt had to be aborted. Tynda is a town of about 35,000 people and is known as an important railway junction on the Baikal-Amur Mainline, or BAM, which traverses eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, and was a flagship Soviet construction project. A source told the Tass news agency that pilot error in poor weather conditions as the aircraft approached the town may have caused it to crash into a low hill. Other reasons were also possible, the source added.
Times
5 hours ago
- General
- Times
Russian passenger plane carrying 49 crashes in Far East
Rescuers have located the burning wreckage of a passenger aircraft that disappeared from radar screens with 49 people on board as it approached a town in the Russian Far East. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the An-24 turbo-prop at about 1pm local time— thought to be carrying 43 passengers and six crew — as it approached Tynda in the Amur region, which borders China. Russian state news agencies cited the Ministry of Emergency Situations and local officials as saying a search helicopter had discovered a burning fuselage on a slope about ten miles (16km) from Tynda. The helicopter was unable to land and rescue personnel were making their way to the site on foot. The aerial inspection found no sign of survivors at the crash site, and everyone on board the plane was expected to have died, emergency officials said. Vasily Orlov, the Amur governor, earlier said that according to preliminary data there were five children among the passengers. 'All necessary forces and means have been deployed to search for the plane,' he wrote on the Telegram messaging app. The An-24, which had a tail number dating it to 1976, was operated by the Siberia-based Angara Airlines. It had taken off from the city of Blagoveshchensk and apparently crashed when it was making a second approach to the runway in Tynda, after a first attempt had to be aborted. Tynda is a town of about 35,000 people and is known as an important railway junction on the Baikal-Amur Mainline, or BAM, which traverses eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, and was a flagship Soviet construction project. A source told the Tass news agency that pilot error in poor weather conditions as the aircraft approached the town may have caused it to crash into a low hill. Other reasons were also possible, the source added.
Times
6 hours ago
- General
- Times
Russian passenger plane carrying 49 crashes in wilderness near China
Rescuers have located the burning wreckage of a passenger aircraft that disappeared from radar screens with 49 people on board as it approached a town in the Russian Far East. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the An-24 turbo-prop at about 1pm local time— thought to be carrying 43 passengers and six crew — as it approached Tynda in the Amur region, which borders China. Russian state news agencies cited the Ministry of Emergency Situations and local officials as saying a search helicopter had discovered a burning fuselage on a slope about ten miles (16km) from Tynda. The helicopter was unable to land and rescue personnel were making their way to the site on foot. The aerial inspection found no sign of survivors at the crash site, and everyone on board the plane was expected to have died, emergency officials said. Vasily Orlov, the Amur governor, earlier said that according to preliminary data there were five children among the passengers. 'All necessary forces and means have been deployed to search for the plane,' he wrote on the Telegram messaging app. The An-24, which had a tail number dating it to 1976, was operated by the Siberia-based Angara Airlines. It had taken off from the city of Blagoveshchensk and apparently crashed when it was making a second approach to the runway in Tynda, after a first attempt had to be aborted. Tynda is a town of about 35,000 people and is known as an important railway junction on the Baikal-Amur Mainline, or BAM, which traverses eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, and was a flagship Soviet construction project. A source told the Tass news agency that pilot error in poor weather conditions as the aircraft approached the town may have caused it to crash into a low hill. Other reasons were also possible, the source added.
Daily Mail
6 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Light aircraft crashed after pilot mixed up left and right hands, investigation finds
A light aircraft crashed after a pilot confused his left and right hands, an investigation has found. The plane was trying to land when it struck trees and crashed on a congested road of cars outside Aston Down airfield in Gloucestershire last August. Both men on the Grob 109B motorglider aircraft were injured with the passenger suffering significant spinal injuries that left him in hospital for several days. The aircraft owner Christopher Tooze, 70, was flying with someone who had a 'significant profile within the gliding world' and was a friend of a prospective buyer of the plane. Mr Tooze had allowed him to take the controls to give him an experience flight. It was 'inappropriate control inputs' by the passenger that caused the crash, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has said. Before take-off, he had told Mr Tooze: 'I am not a power pilot'. The AAIB said in their findings: 'The passenger was in the right seat, so for this phase of flight had his right hand on the control column and his left hand on the engine controls,' said the AAIB. The plane was trying to land when it struck trees and crashed on a congested road of cars outside Aston Down airfield in Gloucestershire last August. 'The passenger stated that he had no intention of trying to land the aircraft. However, he continued to fly through the turn onto final approach with his right hand on the control column. 'The intent was to make an approach in gliding mode, with engine at idle power and the rate of descent controlled by the airbrakes. 'After the final turn he swapped his left hand to the control column and operated the airbrakes with his right hand. The approach was made at an airspeed of 60-70 kt.' The committee explained the passenger was sat in the right back seat and should have had his left hand on the control column and right hand on the airbrake. But most are operated with the airbrake in the pilot's left hand and the control column in the right hand. It comes after a pilot inadvertently caused a British Airways plane to catch fire after mixing up his left and right hands during take off. The Boeing 777 jet had been about to take off from Gatwick to Vancouver in June last year, when the co-pilot mistook his right hand for his left and pulled back on the lever operating the aircraft's thrust. This caused the brakes to catch fire and led to a rejected take-off, meaning the pilot was forced to perform a 'high-speed emergency stop' on the runway after reaching speeds of more than 190mph. There was no evidence of a technical problem in the Grob.
Reuters
8 hours ago
- Business
- Reuters
Dublin-based Avolon sets out new aircraft order with Airbus
DUBLIN, July 24 (Reuters) - Dublin-based aircraft lessor Avolon set out on Thursday a new order with Paris-listed planemaker Airbus for 75 A321neo and 15 A330neo aircraft. The new aircraft are scheduled to be delivered out to 2033, Avolon said in a statement. The order also includes further purchase rights for 25 A321neos and options to buy 15 A330neos.
