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NHK
6 days ago
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- NHK
Russian investigators: All aboard passenger plane in Far East crash dead
Russia's Investigative Committee says all people on board a passenger plane that crashed in the country's Far Eastern region of Amur have died. The region's governor says it was carrying 48 people, not 49 as he initially announced. Russian media reported that the plane, operated by local carrier Angara Airlines, went down on Thursday. The Antonov An-24 aircraft 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 state-run TASS news agency reported that the crash site was on a mountainside 16 kilometers from Tynda. Aerial footage released by aviation authorities shows white smoke rising from a forest and what appears to be the wreckage of the plane.
BBC News
6 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
The Guardian
6 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.
Zawya
17-07-2025
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- Zawya
India investigators say too early to draw conclusions on Air India crash cause
India's aircraft accident investigation body said on Thursday it was too early to reach any "definite conclusions" on what led to the deadly Air India Boeing plane crash last month that killed 260 people. "We urge both the public and the media to refrain from spreading premature narratives that risk undermining the integrity of the investigative process," Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) chief GVG Yugandhar said, adding that the investigation is still not complete. Earlier on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with U.S. officials' early assessment of evidence, reported that a cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the flight indicated that the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane's engines. Reuters could not independently verify the Wall Street Journal's report. The AAIB's preliminary report on the crash on Saturday said one pilot was heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other why he cut off the fuel and "the other pilot responded that he did not do so." It did not identify who made those remarks. The two pilots in the flight deck were Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and First Officer Clive Kunder, who had total flying experience of 15,638 hours and 3,403 hours, respectively. Kunder, who was flying the plane, asked Sabharwal why he moved the fuel switches to the "cutoff" position seconds after lifting off the runway, according to the Journal report. The newspaper did not say if there was any evidence that Sabharwal did move the switches, beyond the verbal exchange it cited. But it quoted U.S. pilots who have read the Indian authorities' report as saying that Kunder, the pilot actively flying, likely would have had his hands full pulling back on the Dreamliner's controls at that stage of the flight. (Reporting by Abhijith Ganapavaram, Editing by Mark Potter, William Maclean)
