Missing Russian Plane Found, No Survivors Reported
No survivors were reported when the missing Antonov An-12 transport plane from Russia was found crashed, the Russian Air Transport authority Rosaviatsia said on Wednesday.
The plane had disappeared from Radars on Tuesday, about 300 km from its take off point , in the city of Magadan early on Tuesday after reporting a fuel leak and fire in an engine.
"Rescuers from an Mi-8 helicopter have found no one alive at the crash site. Wreckage is spread over two kilometers," Rosaviatsia representative Sergi Izvolsky said, according to en.rian.ru report.
The aircraft which was en route to Chukotka, was carrying 11 people and 16 metric tons of food and was found the crash site 82 kilometers from the village of Omsukchan.
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