The light aircraft on a scheduled flight caught fire after crash-landing at around 1pm local time (0300 GMT) close to the aerodrome in Nelkan, a village in the Khabarovsk region where air travel is often the only link between remote localities.
“Six people were killed. One passenger, a child aged two and a half, was brought out alive from the wreckage,” Khabarovsk’s regional interior ministry said in a statement. “There were two crew members and five passengers on board” the Khabarovsk Airlines flight, it said.
The regional governor’s press service said that the little girl suffered a broken leg and a fractured skull.
The plane that crashed was a Czech-built twin turbo-propeller LET-410 that can carry up to 19 passengers.
Aviation accidents, most frequently involving helicopters, are common in Siberia and Russia’s far east.
(16 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH IN TANZANIA)The plane that crashed was a Czech-built twin turbo-propeller LET-410 that can carry up to 19 passengers.
Aviation accidents, most frequently involving helicopters, are common in Siberia and Russia’s far east.Eleven people have died after a plane belonging to a safari company crashed in northern Tanzania , according to the aircraft’s owners, Coastal Aviation. “We are deeply saddened to report that eleven people have died after a single-plane accident this morning in Northern Tanzania ,” the company said in a statement published on its website. Coastal Aviation, which conducts flying safaris in East Africa, said the Cessna Caravan, carrying a pilot and 10 passengers, had crashed in the Empakaai crater area.The names of passengers and crew were being withheld so their families could be informed.
