MOSCOW, July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia’s state aviation agency says that wreckage from a plane that went missing in the Far East region of Kamchatka has been found around five kilometers away from a runway in an airport on the Okhotsk Sea coast where it was supposed to land.
An Antonov An-26 plane with 22 passengers and six crew members, flying from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the town of Palana, missed a scheduled communication and disappeared from radar Tuesday as it was on approach for landing.
The governor of Kamchatka told the Interfax news agency that the main body of the plane was found on the coast, while other wreckage was found in the sea right near the coast.
According to Russian media reports, none of the 28 people on board have survived the crash.
Russian news agencies quoted local officials as saying most of the passengers were from Palana — which has a population of about 3,000 — including four local government officials and the town’s head Olga Mokhiryova.
Kamchatka’s government published a list of 28 people who were on board the plane, including Mokhiryova and one child born in 2014.
The Kamchatka government said the peninsula has five An-26 planes servicing remote areas.
Palana last saw an aircraft go down when an An-28 passenger plane struck trees during a premature descent in September 2012, killing 10 people.
An investigation has been launched. — NNN-AGENCIES
