Rescuers search for survivors after wreckage of Angara Airlines flight found on mountainside near Tynda airport
A passenger plane carrying 49 people has crashed in Russia’s far east and a search for survivors is under way, 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 An-24 plane crash site found no survivors, the local emergency services told the state news agency RIA Novosti. The emergency services added that survivors could still be found during a ground search.
Parts of the burning wreckage were discovered 9 miles (15km) from Tynda airport on a mountainside, authorities said.
