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Putin Discusses An-26 Plane Crash In Kamchatka At Cabinet Meeting

The first topic of Vladimir Putin's Cabinet meeting on Wednesday was the tragedy in Kamchatka, where the An-26 plane crashed on a regular flight on the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - Polana route.


Rescuers are working at the crash site, they are faced with the task of finding and identifying the bodies of the victims. There are three versions of what happened - unfavorable weather conditions, aircraft failure and crew error.
"A technical commission has been set up to investigate the incident. Unfavorable weather conditions, technical failure and pilot error are being considered as the three main causes of the crash," the transport minister said.
Efforts are ongoing to search for, identify and evacuate the bodies of those killed in the crash, he added. As of 4:30 p.m. local time, rescuers had found the fragments of 11 bodies on the crash site. The terrain’s features and complex weather conditions are complicating the rescue operation, Savelyev informed.
The Russian transport minister said he had visited the crash site. "As of now, the commission members and I have made a flight over the crash site," he said.
"Today we flew along the route in weather conditions that were not very good but we landed at [the community of] Palana, using a different route and experienced no problems. That is why, we want to understand why the plane’s commander made such a difficult decision," the transport minister said, without elaborating on it.
An Antonov An-26 passenger plane belonging to the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airline went missing on July 6. The plane bound from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky for Palana was carrying 22 passengers and six crewmembers.
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry earlier confirmed that the bodies of 19 people had been found on the crash site. The search is being complicated by a storm. Debris from the plane was found 3.8 kilometers away from the airport of Palana, according to the Emergencies Ministry.

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