MOSCOW — Local officials reported an aircraft carrying 28 people went missing in the Russian Far East province of Kamchatka on Tuesday.
The jet belongs to Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise, a business based in Kamchatka. According to Russian state news agency Tass, the plane has been in service since 1982. The plane was technically fine, according to the company’s director, Alexei Khabarov, who spoke to the Interfax news agency.
Several ships have also been looking for the jet, according to the state news agency RIA Novosti. Palana is a small village on the shore of the Okhotsk Sea.
An Antonov An-28 jet owned by Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise crashed into a mountain in 2012 while flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk to Palana for a landing. There were a total of 14 passengers on board, with ten of them being killed. According to Tass, both of the pilots who were killed had alcohol in their blood.