No fewer than 28 people including 22 passengers and six crew members on Tuesday died plane which crashed into a cliff in Russia.
An-26 twin-engine turboprop was en route from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana, a village in the north of the Kamchatka peninsulam when it lost contact with air traffic control
Russia’s civil aviation authority confirmed that the plane’s crash site had been found after the emergencies ministry dispatched a helicopter and had deployed teams on the ground to look for the missing aircraft.
Olga Mokhireva, the mayor of Palana, was among the passengers, the TASS agency quoted local authorities as saying.
The weather in the area was cloudy at the time the plane went missing, Russian news agencies reported.
TASS said the aircraft involved had been in service since 1982.
Source
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/
