Source: The Paper
On July 6, local time, an An-26 aircraft carrying 28 people disappeared in kamchatka. Since then, the general manager of Kamchatka Airlines, to which the aircraft belongs, said that the shell of the aircraft has been found and all the passengers on board have been killed.
According to the New York Times reported on the 6th, the flight was originally scheduled to fly from Petropavlovsk-kamchatsky to Palana ( Kamchatsky ) , and 10 minutes before arriving in Parana , the aircraft lost contact with the air traffic control tower when trying to land. The Kamchatka Peninsula is located in the Russian Far East, now part of Kamchatka Krai, a sparsely populated region adjacent to the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk. The area is full of snow-covered peaks, in addition to many geyser valleys and active volcanoes.
Al Jazeera reported that the plane, which disappeared on the 6th, was operated by Kamchatka Airlines and has been in service since 1982. The company's chairman once said in an interview with the media that there is no "technical problem" with the aircraft, and the specific reason for the loss of contact is still unknown. According to previous reports, Khlabrov, general manager of Kamchatka Airlines, said that the shell of the plane has been found, located 3.8 kilometers from parana Village Airport, and all passengers on board were killed. TASS quoted sources from the local emergency department as saying that the plane had collided with the mountain before crashing.
The New York Times reported that this was the third major commercial airliner accident in Russia since 2018. In February 2018, a civil airliner An-148 crashed in moscow oblast, killing all 71 people on board. On May 5, 2019, at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, russia, a passenger plane burned down after landing on the runway, killing 37 of the 78 people on board. In addition, the New York Times reported that this is also the second time such an accident has occurred in the region. In 2012, an An-28 plane crashed while preparing to land on kamchatka, killing 10 people.