Eleven killed in cargo plane crash in Magadan region
MOSCOW. Aug 9 (Interfax) - All 11 people on board an Antonov An-12 cargo airplane, which disappeared from radar screens and crashed in Russia's Magadan region on Tuesday, have died, the Far East Transport Prosecutor's Office said on its website.
"The preliminary information available to us indicates that all 11 people - nine crew members and two passengers - have died," it said.
The airplane belonged to the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft building plant and was leased to the Khabarovsk-based Avis-Amur air carrier, the Prosecutor's Office said.
"The Far East Transport Prosecutor's Office has arranged a check at the office of the Avis-Amur company aimed at assessing its compliance with flight safety requirements," it said.
Transport Prosecutor's Office spokesperson Natalya Gelashvili told Interfax that the wreck of the missing An-12 had been found 200 kilometers from the village of Omsukchan in the Magadan region.
The pilot of an An-12 cargo airplane en route to Chukotka requested an emergency landing at Magadan's airport after detecting a fire in one of the plane's engines. The plane was 300 kilometers from Magadan when the problem occurred.