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48 dead
The plane fell near Tynda was almost 50 years old
The passenger An-24 fell upon the landing near the village of Kuvykt (16 km from Tynda, Amur Region). He made a flight Khabarovsk - Blagoveshchensk - Tynda. According to preliminary data, there were 42 passengers (including 5 children) on board, two airline employees and four crew members. This is not the first An-24 accident of the same airline.
The connection with the side disappeared at about 13.00 local time. Amur rescuers reported that the wreckage of the aircraft on the slope of the mountain saw at 15.26 local time the crew of the Mi-8 Rosavision helicopter. “According to the director of the Airport, Tynda, when the An-24 falls, the aircraft fire occurred, the alive was not found from the air of the air from the air,” the GZ and PB Amur Center commented.
The board flew out of Khabarovsk on schedule, at about half past eight in the morning. Two hours later he landed in Blagoveshchensk, the flight to Tyndu was detained. The plane disappeared from the radar during the second landing, eyewitnesses said that the fuselage of the aircraft caught fire.
The Far Eastern Transport Prosecutor's Office reported on the initiation of a criminal case on violation of the rules of traffic safety and the operation of the aircraft, which entailed the death of more than three persons.
The An-24RV belonged to the Angara regional airline, which flies between the cities of Eastern Siberia and the Far East. According to the specialized website of the Russian Planes , the plane was in operation for 49 and a half years, from February 24, 1976.
It was released at the Kiev Aviant Aviation Plant. A certificate of flight fit for 15 years was given to him by the Federal Air Transport Agency in 2021, when Angara bought it from Izhavia. The average raid of the side per month was 131 hours, it made 20 flights a week. Over the years of his life, this aircraft has been owned and leasing with several airlines, including the Cambodian Kampuchea Airlines. In 2018, the car damaged the wing at the Bodaibo Airport (Irkutsk region), hitting the light of lighting due to snow during the rudder after planting. Then no one was injured.
This is not the first disaster with the aircraft of this company, and also with the An-24.
So, in July 2011, the An-24RV, which commissioned Tomsk Avia, a regular flight from Tomsk to Surgut, the left engine caught fire. From a blow to the water during a forced landing on the Ob, the plane fell into two parts. Seven out of 37 people died, 26 were injured.
In September 2017, the right engine of the An-148 (this is a relatively fresh narrow-fuselage plane), which performed the Talakan-Irkutsk flight, caught fire on the take-off. The plane was put at the departure airport, no one was injured.
And in June 2019, when reduced, the left engine refused the An-24RV, flying from Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk. With an emergency landing at the airport of Nizhneangarsk, the plane came off the runway, crashed into the building of the treatment facilities and fell apart. There were 47 people on board, two crew members were killed.
In total, there are four An-24 aircraft in the operation of the Angara, and, in addition, eight airlines fly on these aircraft. They also fly to Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the DPRK, but mainly in Russia.
PS
Three-day mourning was announced due to the plane crash with the An-24, the governor of the Irkutsk region Igor Kobzev said.
Initially, the governor reported the death of 49 people, then clarified the figure: the dead are 48.