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Siberia, An-24 aircraft crashes during an emergency water landing due to an engine failure

Irkustsk, Siberia - At least 5 dead, as many missing and various injured

At 8:55 MSK today an Antonov AN-24 airplane -registration RA-47302- operated by Angara Airlines was serving a connection from Surgut to Tomsk-Bogashevo airport, when the left engine (an Ivchenko AI-24VT) caught fire forcing the pilots to ditch the plane on the Ob River, in Siberia (Russia). During the emergency maneuver the aircraft (which had on board 37 people including 4 crew members) crashed...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1131835
Rome, Italy, 07/11/2011 12:34
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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