A plane carrying 28 people has gone missing in Russia.

The Russian AN-26 aeroplane was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana in the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia’s far east, when it did not make a scheduled call-in, local media reported.

Among those on board are six crew members and 22 passengers, including a child under 12.

The plane missed a scheduled communication and disappeared from the radars, local emergency officials said.

The plane was coming in for a landing when contact was six miles away from Palana’s airport, Al Jazeera cited a source as saying.

A spokeswoman for the local transport prosecutor’s office in Russia said “search and rescue efforts are underway”.

“All that is known at this time, what has been possible to establish, is that communication with the plane was interrupted and it did not land,” she told
AFP.

It is not yet clear how the plane crashed, as visibility was good at the time with only “low clouds” and “light winds”.

There were conflicting reports of what may have happened, with RIA reporting the plane crashed into the sea off the Kamchatka peninsula as it was
preparing to land while Interfax reported the plane may have gone down near a coal mine close to the town of Palana.

The plane also had a certificate of airworthiness and had passed pre-flight checks, officials said.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin ordered a special commission to find out what had happened to the plane.

“A criminal case was also launched into its fate, a normal measure when a plane goes missing or crashes in Russia,” the Sun newspaper reported.

The plane belonged to a company called Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise and has been in operation since 1982.

The company’s director, Alexei Khabarov, told the Interfax news agency that the plane was “technically sound.”



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Just this morning I was just thinking of how the Sukhoi 100 Superjet flunked over safety issues and wondering why Russia can get fighter jets very right but can't seem to get any successful commercial jet and then I see this ..I hope they are found safe but being a Russian plane I know every soul onboard will be lost especially as its an Antonov

Na Buhari thief am

mekuso89:
Na Buhari thief am

I won't be surprised

Oh well only God knows the answer.

Aviation report like this no dey good at the end of the day

Russia and plane crash na 1 and 2 . Only millitary jets and presidential fleet jets are properly maintained and inspected. Any commercial plane na potential flying coffin

This one serious

Country surrounded wit Arabian terrorists countries, wat ar u expecting,
Iran or iraq might hav mistakenly fire it down wit der rockets,,,,,,

Kremlin comes to mind. Must have shot it down

I don't understand how planes do get missing... There's always misery behind every innovation

Hope it’s not a termination attempt

Lalasticlala

The Russian AN-26 aeroplane was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana in the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia’s far east, when it did not make a scheduled call-in, local media reported.

Correct...

Pacific Russia.

mekuso89:
Na Buhari thief am

It's possible lol, Buhari and his cabals are capable of doing anything, I pray the passengers and the flight crew are found alive, Amen.

Vickyvice:
Russia and plane crash na 1 and 2 . Only millitary jets and presidential fleet jets are properly maintained and inspected. Any commercial plane na potential flying coffin

Really
First time hearing this.
Thank God I have no plans of traveling to Russia, imagine going from fry pan to fire (UAR to Russia)
May God keep them alive, hope they find them soon.

Lewisjohnson:
Country surrounded wit Arabian terrorists countries, wat ar u expecting,
Iran or iraq might hav mistakenly fire it down wit der rockets,,,,,,

"Arabian Terrorists Countries"
LMAO.

It can happen in any country..... What of the one of BOEING just before corona lockdown?

Vickyvice:
Russia and plane crash na 1 and 2 . Only millitary jets and presidential fleet jets are properly maintained and inspected. Any commercial plane na potential flying coffin

Stop saying rubbish
Do proper research before talking

Pa3cia:

Really
First time hearing this.
Thank God I have no plans of traveling to Russia, imagine going from fry pan to fire (UAR to Russia)
May God keep them alive, hope they find them soon.

Google dey there to use

seunny4lif:

Stop saying rubbish
Do proper research before talking

stop posting what you don't understand. You will expose ur ignorance. Where is Russia on that list? Is it not number 2? After USA?

That’s not what you wrote early
Your ignorant is bad and I posted to show you that the USA has more worst records than Russia and far many people have be killed than Russia.

Vickyvice:
stop posting what you don't understand. You will expose ur ignorance. Where is Russia on that list? Is it not number 2? After USA?

seunny4lif:
That’s not what you wrote early
Your ignorant is bad and I posted to show you that the USA has more worst records than Russia and far many people have be killed than Russia.

what I posted was about the frequency of air accidents in Russia, and nothing else. From your data, Russia is second only to US in terms of accidents.

Vickyvice:
what I posted was about the frequency of air accidents in Russia, and nothing else. From your data, Russia is second only to US in terms of accidents.

Your posted sounded like Russia has worst case than the USA.
That was the reason I posted that picture

seunny4lif:

Google dey there to use

Who dey follow you drag?
I only said, it was my first time hearing such, ewo wa ni Google dey dere to use. Okay thanks for telling me abt Google, it's actually my first time hearing Google

Since all this years, na now you remember to reply

Pa3cia:

Who dey follow you drag?
I only said, it was my first time hearing such, ewo wa ni Google dey dere to use. Okay thanks for telling me abt Google, it's actually my first time hearing Google

seunny4lif:

Since all this years, na now you remember to reply

Na when I see am, I reply, hardly check my mentions