The flight, operated by Siberia-based Angara Airlines, lost contact with air traffic controllers several miles from Tynda airport.

The wreckage of a plane that crashed while carrying 49 people has been found in Russia’s Far East, local emergency services said Thursday.

Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said that they had found the plane’s “burning fuselage” but did not provide further details.

A rescue helicopter spotted the burning fuselage of the plane on a mountainside about 16 kilometres from the town of Tynda.

The burning fuselage of the plane, which was from the Soviet era and was nearly 50 years old, was spotted on the ground by a ...

All aboard a Russian passenger plane that disappeared from radar during a Thursday flight in the Far East Amur region died, ...

A Russian passenger aircraft carrying nearly 50 people vanished from radar on Thursday while flying in the country’s far eastern region. The plane, an Antonov An-24 operated by Siberia-based airline ...

The An-24 aircraft operated by Angara Airlines vanished shortly before landing in Tynda, a remote town near the China-Russia border. The plane had nearly 50 people on board.

The plane, which was operated by a Siberia-based airline called Angara, disappeared from the radar screens earlier Thursday ...

A Russian passenger plane carrying around 50 people crashed in the country's far east today (24 July), leaving no survivors, according to preliminary data reported by local news agencies.

The plane took off from Khabarovsk at 7:36 a.m. local time (00:36 Moscow time) on Thursday and was operating on the ...