Just In: Passenger Plane With At least 28 People On Board Goes Missing In Russia-Authorities Say
A Russian Antonov An-26 airplane with 28 people on board, including the head of a local government, went missing on Tuesday in the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, the country’s emergencies ministry said.
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The plane, carrying 22 passengers and six crew members, was en route from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Palana in the northern part of the peninsula when it lost contact with air traffic control and disappeared from the radar, agencies quoted local officials as saying.
Olga Mokhireva, the head of the local government in Palana, was aboard the flight, the spokespeople of the Kamchatka government said. A search and rescue operation is on and a probe into the incident has been launched, they said.
The plane belonged to a company called Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise. Two helicopters and an airplane have been deployed to chart the missing plane’s route.
