The plane, an Antonov-24 operated by the Russian airline Angara, made a second attempt to land in the city of Tynda before it disappeared from the radar. A rescue helicopter later found the burning wreckage on a mountain slope about one and a half miles from Tynda's airport.
48 people were killed in the accident. The cause of the accident is still unknown.
Rescue workers and investigators are working at the crash site to investigate what may have happened, says the region's governor Vasilij Orlov on Telegram.
”There are two main theories about what caused the accident: the first is that it was a technical fault, the second is that it was a handling error by the pilots,” he writes.
