Moscow: A passenger plane carrying 28 people has gone missing in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, according to local media reports.
The plane, an Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop in operation since 1982, was en route from regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana, a town in northern Kamchatka, when it lost contact with air traffic control, Russia’s emergencies ministry said.
Valentina Glazova, a spokeswoman for the local transport prosecutor’s office, told the AFP news agency that “search and rescue efforts” were under way.
“All that is known at this time, what has been possible to establish, is that communication with the plane was interrupted and it did not land,” she said.
