Russia plane crash: Plane attempted second landing approach before losing contact; wreckage discovered, no survivors found

PTC Web Desk: In a tragic aviation disaster, the wreckage of a Russian passenger aircraft carrying 49 persons has been discovered in a remote forested region of Russia's Far East, with no survivors found, according to local emergency services.

The aircraft, operated by Angara Airlines based in Siberia, was en route from Blagoveshchensk — near the Russian-Chinese border — to the town of Tynda in the Amur region. It reportedly disappeared from radar while approaching its destination in adverse weather conditions.

Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry confirmed that an Mi-8 helicopter, deployed by Rosaviatsiya (Russia’s civil aviation authority), located the burning fuselage on a hillside about 15 km south of Tynda. Footage from the air shows plumes of smoke and the aircraft’s wreckage strewn across the dense forest.

According to the regional authorities, the aircraft, an Antonov An-24, was carrying 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members. Officials from the transport prosecutor’s office stated that the plane attempted a second landing approach before losing contact.

Preliminary investigations, reported by the TASS news agency, suggest that the crash may have resulted from crew error during landing under poor visibility conditions. An official inquiry has been launched to investigate potential violations of aviation safety protocols.

This incident marks the third fatal air crash globally in the past two months: On June 12, an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner, with 242 passengers onboard, crashed into a hostel complex of a medical college in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, leaving only one survivor. Additionally, 19 persons on the ground were also killed.

Just earlier this week, on Monday, a Bangladesh Air Force trainee jet crashed into a school and college complex in Uttara, northern Dhaka, resulting in 31 deaths and leaving several others with serious burns and injuries.