A plane carrying 28 people apparently crashed as it came in for a landing in bad weather Tuesday in Russia’s east, and everyone aboard was feared dead.
Wreckage from the Antonov An-26 was found near the airport in the town of Palana, according to officials. The plane was on approach in fog and clouds when it missed a scheduled communication and disappeared from radar, officials from the Kamchatka region said.
Russia’s state aviation agency, Rosaviatsiya, said that parts of the plane were found about 3 miles (5km) from the airport’s runway.
Part of the fuselage was found on the side of a mountain, Russia’s Pacific Fleet told news agencies, and another part was floating in the Okhotsk Sea. Sergei Gorb, deputy director of Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise, said that the plane “practically crashed into a sea cliff”.