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MOSCOW, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — All people on board the An-28 plane that disappeared on radar earlier on Friday have been found alive after the aircraft made an emergency landing in Russia’s Tomsk region, officials said.
Two children were among the passengers together with four crew members, local media reported.
According to the latest news, a total of 19 people were on board the aircraft, two more than in a previous report.
It remains unclear whether the survivors suffered any injuries.
Helicopters with rescuers have been dispatched to the site.
The flight from the town of Kedrovy to the regional capital of Tomsk was carrying between 13 and 17 passengers, the TASS and RIA news agencies cited local officials as saying earlier.
The incident less than two weeks after an Antonov-26 crashed into a cliff in poor visibility conditions on the remote Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east, killing all 28 people on board.
An Antonov-28, the same type of plane that has gone missing over Tomsk, slammed into a Kamchatka forest in 2012 in a crash that killed 10 people. Investigators said both pilots were drunk at the time of the crash.
Russian aviation safety standards have improved in recent years but accidents, especially involving ageing planes in far-flung regions, are not uncommon. — NNN-AGENCIES
