Authorities in Russia lost contact with an AN-26 plane with 29 people on board in the Far Eastern Kamchatka region, local authorities reported on Tuesday.
The emergency services announced that they had spotted the area in which the plane fell into the sea, with a group of vessels dispatched and heading towards the site.
The plane of the Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise was en route to settlement of Palana from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city when it went missing, according to a statement by the Far Eastern Transport Prosecutor's Office.