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Nine bodies recovered from plane crash in far eastern Russia

Agence France-Presse
Nine bodies recovered from plane crash in far eastern Russia
This handout photograph taken and released by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry on July 7, 2021, shows Emergency Situations Ministry workers at the wreckage of the Antonov An-26 missing plane found near its destination airport outside the town of Palana, in Russia's Far East. A search team on Wednesday found the bodies of nine people after a passenger plane crashed in Russia's remote far eastern Kamchatka peninsula.
RUSSIAN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS MINISTRY / AFP

MOSCOW, Russia -- A search team recovered the bodies of nine people on Wednesday after a passenger plane crashed in Russia's remote far eastern Kamchatka peninsula.

The An-26 plane flying from Kamchatka's main city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the coastal town of Palana with 28 people on board disappeared and crashed on Tuesday.

Search teams later found wreckage of the plane near Palana. 

"At present, nine bodies have been found," the regional branch of the emergencies ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that one body had been identified.

The 28 people on board included six crew and 22 passengers, including two minors. All are presumed dead.

More than 50 people were combing the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, officials said, but fog, strong winds and waves were complicating the search operation.

The emergencies ministry said it planned to deploy divers and an Mi-8 helicopter.

Kamchatka is a vast peninsula popular with adventure tourists for its abundant wildlife, live volcanoes and black sand beaches.

Governor Vladimir Solodov declared a three-day mourning period beginning Wednesday.

His office said that the governor planned to travel to Palana together with the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviation, Alexander Neradko.

Officials have said the plane -- built in 1982 -- was in good condition and passed safety checks. 

Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes and incidents, said it was looking at three potential causes of the accident: poor weather conditions, technical malfunctions, or pilot error.

An-26 planes, which were manufactured from 1969 until 1986 during the Soviet era and are still used throughout the former USSR for civilian and military transport, have been involved in a number of accidents in recent years.

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