Passenger plane wreckage found 15km from Russian airport

• An Angara Airlines An-24 passenger plane, carrying 43 passengers and six crew members, crashed near Tynda in Russia's Amur region.
• The aircraft, operating the Khabarovsk–Blagoveshchensk–Tynda route, took off on Thursday at 7.36am local time.
• It vanished from radar and stopped responding to calls just a few kilometres from Tynda airport.
• The wreckage was found 15 kilometres from Tynda on a slope, with emergency services confirming the plane was destroyed.
• Reports indicated the plane went missing during a second landing attempt after an initial approach to Tynda airport was unsuccessful.

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Wreckage of missing Russian plane with nearly 50 people on board found