ALL DEAD AFTER RUSSIAN PLANE CRASHES

Thu 24 July 2025:

All aboard a Russian passenger plane that disappeared from radar during a Thursday flight in the Far East Amur region died, officials said, as they confirmed it crashed.

The Antonov An-24’s wreckage was located, the Emergency Situations Ministry said on Telegram, adding that a helicopter of the Federal Air Transport Agency spotted the burning fuselage during search efforts. According to preliminary information, there were 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members on board the plane.

“Rescuers are heading to the scene,” the statement said, adding that a hotline was established in the region, which borders China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province.

Amur Governor Vasily Orlov said the An-24 was heading from the region’s administrative center, Blagoveshchensk, to Tynda before it went missing.

State news agency TASS, citing the press service of the Amur Center for Civil Defense and Fire Safety, said the wreckage was discovered on a mountainside 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the town of Tynda.

“According to preliminary information, everyone died,” TASS said, citing emergency services, noting that it was difficult to land on the crash site.

Footage from the scene showed the plane crash in a densely forested area, with smoke rising from the site.

According to Vasily Orlov, the regional governor, there were 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members on board. “All necessary forces and means have been deployed to search for the plane,” he wrote.

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What we know about the Russian plane

The tail number of the Antonov plane showed it was built in 1976 in the Soviet era.

The aircraft was operated by the Soviet flag carrier Aeroflot before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. It was currently being operated by a privately owned Siberian-based regional airline called Angara, as per a Reuters report.

Angara airline, based in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, operates in the airports in Siberia and Russia’s far east. It has 10 An-24s built between 1972 and 1976, according to the RussianPlanes website.

Designed for short- and medium-haul airlines, the propeller-driven An-24 took its first flight in October 1959. Its cruise speed is 420 km/hour and operational range of 990 km. The An-24 is the original aircraft of the Antonov family of twin turboprop civil and military planes, as per Skybrary.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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