About Angara Airlines flight 2311:

Angara Airlines Flight 2311 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Angara Airlines from Ignatyevo Airport to Tynda Airport in Russia that crashed during final approach in poor visibility on 24 July 2025, during its second landing attempt. The aircraft, an Antonov An-24RV, crashed about 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) from Tynda airport into a forest near Tynda in Amur Oblast in eastern Russia.[1][2] All 42 passengers and 6 crew members on board died.[3][4][5]

The aircraft involved, manufactured on 29 January 1976, was a 49-year-old Antonov An-24RV registered as RA-47315.[6][7] It first flew for Aeroflot before the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991. The aircraft also flew for Nizhny Novgorod Airlines, Kampuchea Airlines, KurskAvia, Izhavia, Aeroservis and RusLine.[8] At the time of the crash, Angara Airlines operated 10 Antonov An-24 aircraft, all built between 1972 and 1976.[3] Rosaviatsia said that the aircraft had been involved in four incidents since 2018, and officials said it had passed a recent technical inspection.[9] The aircraft's airworthiness certificate was renewed in 2021 with a validity lasting until 2036.[1]

There were 42 passengers and 6 crew members on board the aircraft.[10][11] The passengers included five children.[3] Five of the passengers were employees of the Russian Railways company.[12] A 43rd passenger missed the flight because her granddaughter was ill.[13] One of the passengers was a Chinese national.[14]

The captain was 61-year-old Vyacheslav Logvinov, a graduate of the Talgat Bigeldinov Military Institute of the Air Defence Forces. He had previously worked for IrAero before joining Angara Airlines. The first officer was 37-year-old Kirill Plaksin.[15]

The flight:

The plane landed at Ignatyevo Airport at 8:20 to refuel and let new passengers board before taking off again at 11:20. The plane was originally scheduled to depart at 9:10 but there was a 1 hour and 35 minute delay due to bad weather.[16][dubious – discuss] According to Interfax, the flight route included stops at Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk and Tynda. At the time of the crash, the flight was nearing its final destination of Tynda, a city in Amur Oblast, when it disappeared from radar. The aircraft had made a missed final approach in poor visibility to Tynda airport and was making a second attempt, during which it failed to report at a checkpoint.[17][18] Contact with the aircraft was lost at 13:00 VLAT (UTC+10:00).[19] No distress calls were received from the flight crew.[20]

At the time of the accident the winds were blowing 40 degrees at 3.9 knots (2.0 m/s; 4.5 mph), visibility was 9,999 metres (32,805 ft) with light rain, scattered cumulonimbus clouds at 210 metres (690 ft), and other clouds at 600 metres (2,000 ft). The temperature was 17 °C (63 °F) with QFE pressure 751 hp.[citation needed]

The burning wreckage of the aircraft was found at 17:30 by a Rosaviatsia rescue helicopter[16][14] 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) from Tynda.[21][1] Russian media reported the wreckage was located on a mountainside with no survivors.[4] There were no roads to the crash site so a rescue team numbering more than 100 people had to use heavy machinery to cut a path there.[11] Rescuers reached the crash site by 23:00.[16] Ground access to the site was hampered by the remote and swampy terrain.[9]