A terrible plane crash happened in Russia’s far eastern Amur region on July 24, 2025. All 48 people on board, including passengers and crew, died. The plane, an Antonov An-24 run by Angara Airlines from Siberia, was flying from Blagoveshchensk to Tynda, a small town near China.
It crashed while trying to land in bad weather, and no one survived. This is one of the worst plane crashes in Russia in recent years, and it has made people worry about the safety of old planes in far-off areas.
The plane had 42 passengers, including five children, and six crew members. It went missing from radar while trying to land at Tynda airport. Russia’s emergencies ministry said the plane tried to land twice because it was hard to see in the bad weather. A helicopter later found the plane’s burning wreckage on a mountainside about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Tynda.
Pictures shown on Russian news showed pieces of the plane scattered in a thick forest with lots of smoke rising from the crash site.
The governor of the Amur region, Vasily Orlov, said it was hard for rescue teams to reach the crash site because it was in a remote, forested area. The bad weather and rough ground made it even tougher, and rescuers needed heavy machines to get there. Early reports from TASS, a Russian news agency, suggest the crash might have happened because the pilots made a mistake while trying to land in foggy conditions. However, there could also have been problems with the plane itself. The plane was built in 1976 and had passed a safety check recently, but it had issues before, like a crash in 2018 that damaged its wing.
The Antonov An-24 is an old plane from the Soviet Union, designed in the 1950s. It’s strong and can fly in tough places like Siberia, where it’s very cold and runways are not always paved. But because it’s so old, and Russia has trouble getting spare parts due to sanctions, it’s not always safe. Russia’s airlines still use these old planes because they don’t have newer ones to replace them. This crash reminds people of other accidents, like one in 2021 in Kamchatka where 28 people died in a similar plane crash, and another later that year that killed six people.
One Chinese person was on the plane, and China’s President Xi Jinping sent condolences to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Russian officials are investigating the crash to find out exactly what happened, and they’ve opened support centers at the airports in Blagoveshchensk and Tynda to help the families of those who died. Governor Orlov announced three days of mourning in the Amur region. This sad event shows how risky it is to fly old planes in remote parts of Russia, where bad weather and poor infrastructure make flying dangerous.