The wreckage of the An-26 that disappeared under the Russian Khabarovsk was found at the foot of the mountain on the territory of the Bolshekhekhtsirsky nature reserve. Rescuers who reached the crash site did not find survivors.

Reported by Present Tense.

On September 22, the plane disappeared from radar in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Khekhtsir nature reserve, 38 km from the Novy airport. Earlier, a Mi-8 helicopter with rescuers flew in search of him.

According to a source in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, there were six people on board the An-26: aircraft commander M Simakov. , co-pilot Popov G. , navigator Bolshakov A. , flight mechanic Drozhzhin B. , radio operator Zaitsev D. , as well as the flight operator Tverdunov S.

" An-26 was simply torn into small pieces, "

The aircraft disappeared from radar on September 22. It had five crew members and an operator.. They conducted a survey of air navigation systems at Khabarovsk Novy international airport. Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case.

According to preliminary data, the cause of the crash could be bad weather conditions or a piloting error, and a technical malfunction of the aircraft is not excluded..