Missing Russian plane in Siberia found, all 19 passengers alive

The Antonov An-28 aircraft disappeared from radars while flying from the town of Kedrovy to the city of Tomsk

The incident comes after an An-26 plane crashed earlier this month in the Kamchatka peninsula, killing all 28 people on board

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An AN-26 plane in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. File photo: Reuters

Published: 7:33pm, 16 Jul 2021Updated: 9:33pm, 16 Jul 2021

All 19 people on board a Russian Antonov An-28 passenger plane that vanished from radars in Siberia survived after the aircraft made a hard landing on Friday, the emergencies ministry said.

The aircraft – operated by SiLA, a small airline offering regional flights in Siberia – went missing while flying from the town of Kedrovy to the city of Tomsk.

But the aircraft was located after helicopters were dispatched to search for it.

The ministry said all 19 people on board had survived and were now being evacuated from the site.

The incident comes less than two weeks after a similar aircraft, an Antonov An-26, crashed into a cliff in poor visibility conditions on the remote Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s Far East, killing all 28 people on board.

An Antonov-28, the same type of plane that has gone missing over Tomsk, slammed into a Kamchatka forest in 2012 in a crash that killed 10 people. Investigators said both pilots were drunk at the time of the crash.

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