Plane with 28 onboard goes missing, debris now found in Russia’s Far East region

July 6: A Russian airplane carrying 28 onboard has gone missing in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east region on Tuesday. The 28 people on board included six crew members and there were one or two children among the 22 passengers. A massive search was launched. The plane was flying from Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky to Palana in the Kamchatka Peninsula when it did not make a scheduled communication.

As per a report on Reuters, the Russian AN-26 airplane with 28 people on board that was reported missing in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east has crashed into the sea. In a statement posted on the Kamchatka regional government’s website, Governor Vladimir Solodov said fragments of the fuselage were found both on the shore and in the sea. The head of the local administration in Palana, Olga Mokhireva, was among the passengers. All passengers feared to be dead.

Officials said that communication with the plane had been lost 9 km (5.5 miles) from Palana airport, 10 minutes before it was scheduled to land.