Missing Plane With 48 Passengers Discovered, No Survivors Reported

Some tragic news has been reported in Russia.

On Thursday morning, a plane carrying 48 passengers went missing in Russia.

Hours after the plane was first reported missing, it was later discovered crashed in the Amur region.

ABC News had more details to release on the plane crash:

A passenger plane carrying 48 people crashed on Thursday morning in Russia’s far eastern Amur region with no survivors, according to the local governor.

The Russian news agency Interfax reported that the plane’s wreckage was found around nine miles from its intended destination in the town of Tynda, having traveled from the regional hub of Blagoveshchensk some 360 miles away.

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Gov. Vasily Orlov said in a post to Telegram that the An-24 aircraft vanished from radar close to Tynda. Emergency services later found the wreckage in nearby woods. “I regret to inform you that there are no survivors,” Orlov wrote in a later post. “Rescuers have reached the crash site.” Orlov declared three days of mourning.

Artem Korenyako — a spokesperson for Russia’s federal aviation agency Rosaviatsiya — wrote on Telegram that a search and rescue helicopter “discovered a burning fuselage.”

Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations also reported the discovery of burning wreckage in a post to Telegram. More than 50 people and 10 pieces of equipment were deployed in search and rescue efforts, the ministry said.

Irkutsk Oblast Gov. Igor Kobzev said that “the flight crew, technical staff and flight attendants lived in the Irkutsk region.” He noted that officials are working to “get a full list of passengers today and, of course, to see who of them lives in the Irkutsk region.”

AP reported that the weather may had been a factor in the crash:

All 48 passengers and crew onboard a passenger plane that crashed in Russia’s Far East have died, the head of the country’s Amur region said in a statement Thursday.

Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said earlier that it had found the burning fuselage of the Soviet-designed twin turbo prop plane on a hillside south of its planned destination in the town of Tynda, more than 7,000 kilometers (4,350 miles) east of Moscow.

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The plane, which was operated by the Siberia-based Angara Airlines, had initially departed from Khabarovsk before making its way to Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border and onwards to Tynda.

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash. Russia’s Interfax news agency said there were adverse weather conditions at the time of the crash, citing unnamed sources in the emergency services. Several Russian news outlets also reported that the aircraft was almost 50 years old, citing data taken from the plane’s tail number.