A Russian passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people on board has gone missing in the eastern parts of the Amur region, according to the Interfax news agency.
“The An-24 plane was flying along the Khabarovsk-Blagoveshchensk-Tynda route. It failed to pass security checks near its final destination. There is no contact with it,” emergency services were quoted as saying by the news agency.
There are 40 passengers, including two children, and six crew members onboard.
Interfax reported that the plane vanished during a second landing attempt, after an initial approach to Tynda airport was unsuccessful.
A source was quoted as saying by Tass news agency: “An An-24 operated by Angara Airlines failed to make contact at a designated checkpoint a few kilometres from Tynda Airport.”
Last year in September, a Robinson R66 helicopter with three people on board went missing in Russia’s Amur region during an unregistered flight over the Zeya district in the northeastern part of the Amur region.
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