The disappearance of a plane carrying passengers in Russia has caused a disturbance. The AN-26, which took off with 29 passengers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Far East, lost contact with Air Traffic Control (ATC) on its way to Palana. The plane was carrying 23 passengers and the rest six were crew. It seems that there were children among the passengers.
Vigilant officers are scrambling for the plane. Authorities are doubtful whether the plane crashed into the sea or crashed into a coal mine in the Palana area during landing. Auxiliary crews boarded two helicopters to locate the plane.
According to Valentina Glazova, a spokeswoman for the local transport prosecutor’s office. “Search and rescue operations are in progress,” she said. “All that is known at this time, what can be established, is that communication with the plane was disrupted and the plane did not land.”
She stated that the plane was flown by a small aviation business in Kamchatka, a huge peninsula in Russia’s far east on the Pacific Ocean.
Russia is largely known for flight mishaps, but in recent years they have improved its aviation safety record.
However, poor aircraft maintenance and inadequate safety regulations continue, and several fatal air accidents in the country have occurred in recent years.
A Sukhoi Superjet, part of the flag carrier Aeroflot, crashed and burned on the runway of a Moscow airport, killing 41. The last big airplane accident occurred in May 2019.
Saratov Airlines An-148 collapsed shortly after departure near Moscow in February 2018, killing 71 passengers. An examination eventually found that human error led to the accident.
It doesn’t stop at that. A jet with more than 230 passengers from the Ural Airlines in August 2019 landed miraculously in a cornfield in Moscow, shortly following the take-off when a flock of birds was sucked into the engine firing the red alarm.
In February 2020, after a failure in the landing system, a Utair Boeing 737 carrying 100 persons crashed into its belly in Nord Russia. All the passengers and crew of the flight survived, fortunately.
In the large isolated areas of the vast country, with challenging weather conditions such as the Arctic or the Far East, flight in Russia can potentially be risky.
Also Read: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans To Launch The Starship’s Orbital Launch This July
Read More: Joe Biden And Vladimir Putin Are Committed To Improve Their Ties After The Geneva Summit