Missing Russian AN-26 plane crashes into sea

Agency Report

Russian emergency services have located where a missing AN-26 plane crashed into the sea, RIA news agency has reported.

The plane with 28 people on board was reported missing earlier on Tuesday.

It was preparing to land in Russia’s far east.

Several ships were on the way to the crash site, RIA said.

The plane had been en route to the village of Palana, near the Okhotsk Sea coast in the Kamchatka peninsula.

Earlier report by TASS said 29 people were on board.