Russian emergency services have located the spot where an Antonov An-26 plane crashed into the sea, the Russian news agency RIA reported today, after the announcement that the fate of a plane with 28 passengers that was preparing to land in the Russian Far East is unknown.
Ships are arriving at the scene of the crash, emergency services said, according to RIA. The plane was heading to the town of Palana near the shore of the Okhotsk Sea.
All contact has been lost with a 28-passenger plane flying over the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, Russian news agencies quoted national security services as saying today.
The plane, an AN-26, was flying from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the town of Palana in the northern part of the peninsula when it stopped transmitting reconnaissance signals, Interfax and RIA Novosti explained.
The 28 passengers include six crew members and one or two children, the agencies said. Two helicopters are looking for the plane that, according to various sources, may have fallen into the sea or crashed to the ground near a coal mine near Palana. The Interfax news agency quoted the local meteorological center as saying that there was cloud in the area.
Source: KYPE