Angara Airlines An-24 crash in Russia: What we know
An Antonov An-24RV passenger plane belonging to the Russian airline Angara Airlines crashed this Thursday in a mountainous area of the Amur region, in the Russian Far East. The wreckage of the aircraft was located about 15 kilometers from the airport in the city of Tynda, its final destination. According to preliminary reports from emergency services, none of the 49 occupants survived the impact.
The aircraft, with almost 50 years of service, was flying a domestic route that originated in Khabarovsk, with a stopover in Blagoveshchensk, before heading to Tynda.
Communication with the crew was lost as the aircraft was making a second approach attempt to the airport in low visibility conditions, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
The governor of the Amur region, Vasily Orlov, confirmed that 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members were on board.
A Mi-8 helicopter from the rescue teams located the burning wreckage of the An-24 on a mountainside, in an area of dense forest and difficult access, which complicates recovery efforts.
Angara Airlines operates a fleet of 31 aircraft with an average age of 41 years:
- 12 Antonov An-24RV
- 3 Antonov An-26 100
- 12 Mi-8 T helicopters
- 3 Mi-8 AMT helicopters
- One Mi-8 AMT helicopter
From its base at Irkutsk International Airport, it serves a network of five destinations in the Amur region.
The Antonov An-24 is a Soviet-era turboprop of which 1,300 aircraft were built between 1959 and 1979.
According to data obtained by Aviacionline through Cirium Fleet Analyzer, there are currently 77 Antonov An-24s in service, the vast majority with Russian airlines, with only a dozen distributed among North Korea, Cuba, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Somalia, and Ukraine.
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