Missing Russian aircraft’s wreckage found; none survived crash

Updated On: 07 July, 2021 10:19 AM IST | Moscow | Agencies

An Antonov An-26 plane with 22 passengers and six crew members, flying from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the town of Palana on the Okhotsk Sea coast, missed a scheduled communication and disappeared from radar as it was on approach for landing

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This picture released by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry on Tuesday, shows Russian An-26 aircraft with the tail number RA-26085 on the apron at the airport of Patropavlovsk-Kamchatckiy. Pic/AFP

Wreckage from a plane that went missing on Tuesday in Russia’s Far East region of Kamchatka was found around five kilometres (three miles) away from a runway at an airport on the coast where it was supposed to land, officials said.