"The plane en route from Novosibirsk Yeltsovka airport (in southern Siberia) crashed during landing in Irkutsk-2 airport," an official in the emergency service of the Siberian Federal District told the Interfax news agency, Xinhua reported.

Remains of five people killed in the incident have been recovered from under the debris, according to a source with the emergency situations ministry's Irkutsk branch.