Plane With Several People Onboard Crashes in Russia, Wreckage Found as Video Trends

• A Russian passenger plane carrying at least 50 people has crashed in the eastern Amur region
• Authorities have deployed rescue helicopters, emergency response teams, and ground personnel
• With severe weather and challenging geography in the region, the rescue mission is proving difficult

Amur, Russia - A Russian plane carrying 49 people, including 5 children and 6 crew, has crashed.

As reported by Sky News on Thursday, July 24, the aircraft was flying from the city of Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border to the remote town of Tynda.

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Regional governor Vasily Orlov said on Telegram:

"All necessary forces and means have been deployed to search for the plane."

There are no survivors, according to NDTV World.

Wreckage of Russian plane found

A clip shared by state television news RT shows the damaged aircraft engulfed in large clouds of smoke in what appears to be a forest.

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Investigations ongoing into Russian crash

The emergency ministry said it is investigating why the plane lost contact, and the Interstate Aviation Committee launched a probe.

According to publicly available databases, the aircraft was built in 1976. The Antonov AN-24 model was designed in 1957.

The aircraft was only a few miles from the Tynda airport when it lost contact with air traffic controllers. The ill-fated plane was operated by Angara Airlines, a Russian airline that is based in Irkutsk in Siberia.

2025 deadliest in years for aviation safety

The plane crash in Russia that is feared to have claimed 49 lives on Thursday, July 24, comes barely a month-and-a-half after the Air India crash in Ahmedabad.

Even before the July 24 crash in Russia's eastern Amur region, the year 2025 was already way above the past decade's average of deaths in air crashes per year.

The number of civil aviation fatalities in 2025 had crossed 460 after the Ahmedabad crash claimed 260 lives.

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According to Jan-Arwed Richter, founder of Jacdec, a German consulting firm that tracks aviation safety, the average over the past decade is 284.

Now, if the Russia crash indeed causes the number of deaths feared — all 49 onboard — the total for 2025 will cross 500, which will be almost double the average, Hindustan Times noted.

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Pilot averts midair disaster

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that a SkyWest Airlines pilot carried out an “aggressive” evasive manoeuvre mid-flight to steer clear of a US Air Force B-52 bomber over North Dakota, averting what could have been a catastrophic collision.

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The incident unfolded as the Embraer E175 jet, operating as Delta Connection Flight 3788, travelled from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Minot International Airport.

The commercial jet came dangerously close to a B-52 Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base during the 90-minute journey.

Proofreading by James Ojo, copy editor at Legit.ng.

Source: Legit.ng