A airliner aboard which there were about fifty people crashed Thursday, July 24, in the region of love, in the Russian Far East, the local authorities of these regularly insulated territories announced by air disasters. THE “Fuselage in flames” The device was spotted by the crew of a rescue helicopter, the Ministry of Russian emergency situations said on Telegram.
According to the region’s civil protection center, the rescuers did not “Discovered survivors” When flying over the site and must continue their research on the ground. The carcass of the plane was spotted 16 kilometers from Tynda, in the Oblast de l’amour, he specifies.
The exact number of passengers remains uncertain at this stage. The governor of the region, Vassili Orlov, announced initially that 49 people, including five minors and six crew members, would be on board, then the Russian news agency Tass, citing operational services, spoke of 46 occupants, including two children and six crew members.
The disaster took place in a “Place difficult to access”said the ministry of emergency situations, adding that fifty rescuers and a dozen machines were mobilized. The site is located in the middle of a forest area, according to a video filmed by the crew of the helicopter having spotted the aircraft and published by the ministry. We see a plume of smoke rising from the forest and flames near what seems to be debris of the aircraft. According to the authorities, it was a flight from Angara Airlines, company of the Irkutsk region, in Siberia.
Landing attempts
According to Vassili Orlov, the device was making a flight between Blagovechtchensk and Tynda, when he has “Disappeared from radars”. According to preliminary information, provided by the Department of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office responsible for transport in the Far East, the contact was lost with the aircraft around 1 p.m. local time (6 hours in Paris), while it was making a “Second approach” To try to land at Tynda airport.
According to TASS, which quotes a source in airport authorities, the plane was manufactured in 1976 at the Aviant factory in kyiv, Ukraine. In 2021, his navigability certificate had been extended until 2036, said the agency.
Airplane and helicopter accidents are fairly frequent in the Russian Far East, wild and isolated region where many trips must be made by the air due to the gigantic distances to be covered. A MI-8 type helicopter of Soviet design had crashed at the end of August 2024 in Kamthatka, causing the death of the 22 passengers.
In August 2021, another mid-8 helicopter with 16 people on board, including 13 tourists, damaged in 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, while he was preparing to land in Kamchatka, leaving no survivors.
