The aircraft, an Antonov-24 twin-engine plane operated by Angara Airlines, was traveling from Blagoveshchensk to Tynda when it vanished from radar, according to regional governor Vassily Orlov’s Telegram post.
Later, a rescue helicopter located the burning wreckage on a mountainside roughly 16 kilometers from Tynda. Local emergency crews reported no signs of survivors from their aerial view.
Rescue teams were quickly mobilized, with the Amur civil defense agency stating that 25 personnel and five rescue units had been deployed, while four aircraft with crews were on standby.
This tragedy follows another recent aviation disaster—a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka on Monday, claiming 31 lives and injuring over 170 people.
