The two black boxes of the plane that crashed in eastern Russia with 28 people on board have been located

Russian authorities confirmed on Friday the discovery of the two ‘black boxes’ of the 28-occupant plane – six crew members and 22 passengers – crashed on Tuesday in the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the far east of the country.

Russian emergency services spokesperson quoted by Russian news agency Sputnik reported that in the last few hours the voice recorder and flight data recorder were found, as part of operations in the area.

Likewise, the rescue teams managed to reach the place where the plane crashed during the day, where they recovered the remains of the rest of the victims, after the discovery of the bodies of 23 people in recent days.

The scene of the incident is on a hill near the town of Palana, although previous attempts to access the area by helicopter were aborted due to high winds.

The National Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) underlined after the incident that the weather conditions in Palana at the time of the landing were “complicated” and clarified that the clouds covered the mountains near the airfield of Palana.

The Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Mushustin, on Tuesday ordered the creation of a commission headed by Transport Minister Vitali Saveliev to investigate what happened. In addition, a three-day duel was announced across the region.

The wreckage of the plane that disappeared Tuesday with 28 people on board in the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the far east of Russia, were found about four kilometers from the airport where it should have landed, the Russian air agency said.

“Rescuers found remains of the plane,” Rossaviatsia said in a statement sent to AFP, and explained that “the job of rescuers is difficult” because of the geography of the area. The plane was scheduled to land at 3:50 p.m. local time, 5:50 a.m. GMT, but contact was lost a few minutes earlier.

None of the passengers survived the crash, according to what emergency services told the official agency RIA Novosti.

“Part of the fuselage was found on the shore, the other in the waterKamtachtka Governor Vladimir Solodov said in a video posted on the region’s website.

The plane, a Soviet-designed Antonov An-26, was flying from the region’s capital, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, to the small town of Palana when it stopped broadcasting, he told the AFP Valentina Glazova, spokesperson for the regional public prosecutor’s office in charge of transport.

(With information from Europa Press9

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