An Antonov An-24 passenger plane carrying 48 people crashed in Russia's far east on Thursday as it was preparing to land, killing everyone on board in an incident that spotlighted the continued use of old,

Russian officials say 48 people were killed when an Angara Airlines plane went down in a dense forest in the far-eastern Amur region. The Antonov An-24 plane, carrying 42 passengers and six crew, had left Blagoveshchensk close to the Chinese border and vanished from radar screens as it approached Tynda airport,

Flight recorders have been found at the crash site of a passenger plane in eastern Russia a day after the deadly accident, according to the Russian Transport Ministry on Friday. The recorders are to be brought to Moscow for decoding,