A PASSENGER plane has crashed into a remote Russian mountainside, with all 49 people on board – including five children – now feared dead.
The An-24 aircraft, almost 50 years old, disappeared without a trace as it battled low clouds and driving rain on its second approach to land at Tynda airport in Russia’s far-flung Amur region.

It had been flying the Khabarovsk–Blagoveshchensk–Tynda route and was battling low cloud and heavy rain when it vanished.
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