The fiery hug of an airliner with 48 people on board, which had disappeared from radars this Thursday, July 24, morning in the Russian Far East, was found by rescuers, said the ministry of emergency situations. “All the people on board the aircraft are dead”, announced the spokesperson for the Russian Inquiry Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, adding that an investigation for “Violation of rules” air transport had been opened. The Antonov-24 made a flight between Blagovechtchensk (on the border with China) and Tynda (800 km north).
The region’s civil protection center had previously indicated on Telegram that the rescuers helicopter did not “Discovered of survivors from the air” By flying over the crash site, adding that teams went to the ground. According to this source, the plane fuselage was spotted 16 kilometers from the locality of Tynda.
The place of disaster is in a “Place difficult to access”said the ministry of emergency situations, adding that more than 50 rescuers and a dozen equipment had been mobilized in this operation. The site is located in the middle of a forest area, according to a video filmed from the helicopter having spotted the aircraft and published by the ministry. On these images, we see a plume of smoke rising in the middle of many trees and flames near what seems to be debris of the aircraft.
According to the authorities, it was a flight from the airline Angara Airlines, based in the Irkutsk region, in Siberia. Earlier, the governor of the region, Vassili Orlov, had announced that the aircraft, which was making a flight between Blagovechtchensk and Tynda, had “Disappeared from radars”. According to preliminary information, provided on Telegram by the Department of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office in charge of transport in the Far East, the contact was lost with the aircraft around 4 am, while it was a “Second approach” To try to land at Tynda airport.
According to Tass, citing a source in airport authorities, the plane had been manufactured almost 50 years ago, in 1976, by the Aviant factory in kyiv in Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union. In 2021, his navigability certificate had been extended until 2036, according to TASS. 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.
These disasters can be caused by difficult weather conditions, technical problems linked to dilapidated equipment or piloting errors. 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.
Update at 3:47 p.m. with the human record of the disaster.