All three aboard the aircraft that went down in Russia’s Far East are alive, emergencies services have said
An Antonov An-2 single-engine plane that went missing over Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East on Thursday has been found, and all three aboard survived the crash, emergencies services have said.
The Soviet-designed aircraft, owned by the company Fieravia, signaled that it was conducting an emergency landing four days ago, some 160km from the village of Klyuchi in the eastern part of the peninsula. The plane, which had two crew members and a single passenger aboard, was flying in low clouds and heavy snow.
The extensive operation to track down the An-2 involved several aircraft and six teams of emergency workers on snowmobiles searching on the ground.
“The plane is found. The people are alive,”the regional emergencies minister, Sergey Lebedev, announced in a post on Russia’s VK platform on Sunday. He later published a photo, which captured the aircraft …