An AN-24 passenger plane crashed in the Amur region. The main thing

The AN-24 plane crashed in the Amur region. The aircraft crashed on landing at Tynda airport. There were 48 people on board. According to preliminary information, there are no survivors of the plane crash. What is known by this hour about the incident and the crashed plane is in the Izvestia material.

What is known about the crash

• On July 24, the Governor of the Amur Region, Vasily Orlov, announced that the An-24 aircraft had disappeared from radar and was not communicating. The aircraft with passengers on board was flying from Blagoveshchensk to Tynda. Operational services began searching for the plane.

• Later, the head of the region said that the Mi-8 helicopter of the Federal Air Transport Agency, sent to search, found the fuselage of the aircraft near Tynda. The burning building was found about 16 km from the city on a mountainside at 15:26 local time (9:26 Moscow time). Rescuers were unable to land near the wreckage, they are forced to reach them on foot. Two helicopters with medical teams were prepared to be sent to the scene.

• The plane crashed on landing. He couldn't land the first time and went on the second lap. At that moment, he stopped contacting us. Eyewitnesses filmed how the liner tried to land on the second attempt. At that moment, the ship was flying at a low altitude with a loud hum.

• According to preliminary information, the crash could have been caused by pilot error or a technical malfunction that occurred during the flight. The weather in the area of the fall was bad with low clouds, light rain and limited visibility. The commander of the aircraft was Vyacheslav Logvinov, a 61-year-old pilot from Irkutsk.

• A criminal case has been opened into the crash under Part 3 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of the rules of safety of movement and operation of an aircraft, resulting in the death of more than three persons"). The investigation was taken over by the Tynda Investigation Department for Transport of the Eastern Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

• The Interstate Aviation Committee has launched its own investigation into the accident. Russian President Vladimir Putin was informed about the plane crash.

What is known about the passengers

• An-24 was flying flight number 2G 2311. The plane was flying from Khabarovsk to Tynda with an intermediate stop in Blagoveshchensk. Governor Orlov previously reported that there were 49 people on board: 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members. The regional Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations clarified that there were 48 people on the plane.

• The Amur Center for Civil Protection and Fire Safety reported that no survivors were found during a flyby of the accident site. According to preliminary data, all those on board were killed.

• The Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Amur Region has opened a hotline number +7 (4162) 53-99-99. A team of psychologists from the Ministry of Emergency Situations has been mobilized for the relatives of the victims.

What is known about the plane

• The AN-24 belongs to the class of passenger turboprop aircraft for small and medium-length lines. It is equipped with two engines and accommodates up to 48 passengers on board. The advantage of the aircraft is that it is convenient for landing on small and unpaved airfields.

• The aircraft was produced from 1959 to 1979 at aircraft factories in Kiev, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude. In 1962, he made his first passenger flight. In Soviet times, the AN-24 provided up to a third of the passenger traffic in the country. The service life of the AN-24 is up to 60 years. The crashed aircraft was operated for 49 years.

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• The crashed aircraft had an AN-24RV modification and tail number RA-47315. It was built in January 1976, and its service life was calculated until 2036. The vessel has been in service with Angara Airlines since 2021. In December 2018, the same aircraft, while in the possession of the company "Izhavia", touched the left wing of the lighting mast during taxiing and was damaged.

• The last incident with the AN-24 aircraft occurred on June 27, 2019. The aircraft, which was also operating an Angara Airline flight, made an emergency landing in Nizhneangarsk due to engine failure. During landing, the airliner went off the runway and crashed into a sewage treatment plant. Two of the 47 people on board were killed.