What Happened: Local media reported the loss of contact with Russian AN-26 plane with at least 28 people on board. The plane has gone missing in Kamchatka Peninsula. Details : The An-26 was flying from Kamchatka’s main city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the town of Palana when it disappeared and failed to land as scheduled, Valentina Glazova, a spokeswoman for the local transport prosecutor’s office, told the news. “Search and rescue efforts are under way,” she notified. “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.” There were conflicting reports of what may have happened, with one source telling TASS the plane could have crashed into the sea and another telling Interfax it may have gone down near a coal mine close to the town of Palana. A search had been launched involving at least two helicopters and rescue workers were on standby, the reports said. There have been several such incidents in Russia over the years. In 2019, a Ural Airlines flight carrying more than 230 people made a miracle landing in a Moscow corn field after a flock of birds were sucked into the engines shortly after take-off. In 2020, a Utair Boeing 737 carrying 100 people crash-landed after its landing system malfunctioned. All of the flight’s passengers and its crew survived. Flying in Russia can also be dangerous in the vast country’s isolated regions with difficult weather conditions such as the Arctic and the Far East. Click here to see more from Propergaanda.
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