Helicopter shows site after Russian plane crash in far east
A passenger plane carrying 49 people has crashed in Russia's far east and a search for survivors is under way, local officials have said. The flight, operated by the Siberia-based Angara Airlines, vanished from radar and lost contact with air traffic controllers while approaching its destination of Tynda, a remote town in the Amur region bordering China. An aerial inspection of the An-24 plane crash site found no survivors, the local emergency services told the state news agency RIA Novosti. They added that survivors could still be found in a ground search
Passenger plane with 49 people onboard crashes in Russia’s far east
