A Russian plane carrying 49 people has crashed with no survivors, according to reports.
The aircraft - which is believed to have had 43 passengers including five children, and six crew on board - was flying from the city Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border to the town of Tynda, regional governor Vasily Orlov said.
Air traffic controllers lost contact on Thursday with the An-24 passenger plane while approaching its destination in the Amur region bordering China.
"All necessary forces and means have been deployed to search for the plane," Mr Orlov said on Telegram.
A rescue helicopter later located the burning fuselage of a Russian passenger plane, an emergency official said.
There were no survivors, news agency TASS reported, claiming an error during landing in poor visibility as a potential reason for the crash.
Air traffic controllers lost contact on Thursday with an An-24 passenger plane carrying about 50 people in Russia's far east and a search was under way, the regional governor said.
Regional governor Vasily Orlov said on Thursday that according to preliminary data, there were 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members on board.
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