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Last Updated:July 24, 2025, 11:49 IST
The An-24 aircraft operated by Angara Airlines vanished shortly before landing in Tynda, a remote town near the China-Russia border. The plane had nearly 50 people on board.
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A passenger plane with nearly 50 people on board went missing in Russia’s far east on Thursday. According to Interfax and SHOT news outlets, the missing aircraft was an An-24 passenger plane.
The plane was operated by the Angara airline and was headed for the town of Tynda in the Amur region bordering China.
It was believed to be a few kilometres away from its destination when it lost contact with the air traffic controllers, it was known.
More details on the same were awaited.
On Monday, an AeroMexico regional jet nearly collided with a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 jet on the runway in Mexico City.
The incident happened as the AeroMexico plane was coming in for landing, when it flew over and touched down in front of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 jet already beginning to take off.
Delta Flight 590 was starting to roll down the runway at Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juarez with 144 customers and six crew members on board when the pilots saw another plane land directly in front of it, the airline said in a statement.
The pilots stopped the takeoff and returned to the terminal. The plane eventually took off on its flight to Atlanta about three hours late.
An investigation was ordered into the incident.
On July 21, a Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI training aircraft crashed into a school campus in northern Dhaka’s Uttara shortly after takeoff.
At least 27 people were reported killed in the incident, while 78 others were injured, local media reported.
Among the deceased were 25 children, many of them under the age of 12, with extensive burn injuries.
The Bangladesh government declared a one-day state mourning over the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in decades.
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Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.
Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.
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