MOSCOW – An airplane with 28 people on board crashed into the sea on Tuesday off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula as it was preparing to land, RIA news agency reported on Tuesday.
The plane, an Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop, was en route from regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana, a village in northern Kamchatka, when it lost contact with air traffic control, Russia’s emergency ministry said.
There were 22 passengers and six crew on board, the ministry added.
Village mayor Olga Mokhireva was among the passengers.
According to TASS agency, the plane was built in 1982.(Reuters)
