Crash in Russia
A airliner with 49 people on board “has disappeared from radars”
The flame fuselage of the radar line of radars in the Russian Far East was found.
The Flames Fuselage of the Antonov-24 was found by rescuers, said the Ministry of Emergency Situations (Illustration Image).
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And airliner With 49 people on board crashed Thursday in the love region, in the Russian Far East, the local authorities of these territories are regularly bereaved by air disasters.
The “flame fuselage” of l’Antonov-24 was spotted by a rescue helicopter, the Russian ministry said emergency situations on Telegram.
The region’s civil protection center said on Telegram that the rescuers’ helicopter had not “discovered survivors from the air” by flying over the crash site, adding that teams went to the ground.
According to this source, the plane carcass was spotted 16 kilometers from the locality of Tynda.
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Earlier, the governor of the region, Vassili Orlov, had announced that this device, which made a flight between Blagovechtchensk and Tynda, had “disappeared from radars”.
Frequent accidents in the Russian Far East
Airplane and helicopter accidents are fairly frequent in the Russian Far East, a wild and remote region where many journeys must be carried out by the air due to the gigantic distances to be covered.
A mid-8 type helicopter, of Soviet design, crashed at the end of August 2024 in Kamchatka, causing the death of the 22 passengers on board.
In August 2021, a mid-8 helicopter with 16 people on board, including 13 tourists, crashed into a lake in the Kamchatka volcanic peninsula, due to poor visibility. The accident had killed eight.
In July of the same year, an airliner crashed with 22 passengers and six crew members on board, while he was preparing to land in Kamchatka, leaving no survivors.
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