They find the missing plane in Siberia and find the 18 people on board alive

The plane Antonov AN-28 who had disappeared on Friday from radars in the Siberian region of Tomsk has been found and the 18 people traveling on board are alive, according to Russian authorities.

“The 15 passengers and three crew members were found. All the people on board are alive,” said the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) in a statement sent to AFP, specifying that the survivors were being transported to the city of Tomsk.

The plane, operated by the Siberian Light Aviation Company (Sila), connected the small town of Kedrovy with Tomsk when “has stopped communicating” around 5 p.m. local time (10 a.m. GMT), regional authorities said in a statement.

Almost two hours after the activation of his distress signal, the plane was found 70 km from the town of Kedrovy. “All the passengers and crew are alive,” a Sila company official told Interfax.

The air rescue in the area, cited by Interfax, clarified that the plane was “very damaged”. Local Iz media detailed that “none of the people on board suffered serious injuries except for pilot Anatoly Prytkov, who he injured his leg“.

The media also reported that the cause of the emergency landing was engine failure and the pilots managed to land the plane in an open area in the middle of a forest.

For its part, the TASS agency reported that the plane passed all technical inspections, but a Sila official said it was delayed by ten hours due to the bad weather conditions.In addition to this, you will need to know more about it.

Meanwhile, the press service of the West Siberian Transport Investigation Directorate reported that a criminal case had been opened for “Violation of security of transit and operation of air transport”.

This accident comes just over a week after another that happened with an Antonov plane.

On July 6, an AN-26 crashed while landing on the Kamchatka Peninsula (Far East), killing all 28 people on board.

Essentially manufactured in Soviet times, Antonovs continued to be used throughout the former USSR in civil and military aviation.

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