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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
![Antonov An-24 turboprop transport aircraft in an index photo (picture by Elke Wetzig Elya, Wikipedia)](https://avionews.it/resources/big/c0408d42ac00caad3a3cd24596906622.jpg.webp)
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
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency