26/12/2013 18:00
Transport plane crashes in Siberia: six people are feared dead
The crew of the An-12 plane that crashed while lading at the Irkutsk-2 airport had six people, a source in the Irkutsk region's emergency services told Interfax. "The plane was carrying six people. They were the crew," the source said, according to the Voice of Russia.
"The plane was carrying six people. They were the crew. The plane was a cargo plane. All people aboard are feared dead," the source said.
The Emergency Situations Ministry has confirmed that the An-12 plane that crashed near Irkutsk was carrying six crew members.
The Siberian regional center of the Emergency Situations Ministry, in turn, told Interfax that plane had crashed in the Irkutsk region in the area of the station Batareinaya at 4:38 p.m. on Thursday.
The source said the information about the people aboard the plane is being clarified. Firefighters and other emergency services have left for the scene, Andrei Shutov, the head of the Emergency Situations Ministry's Main Department, told Interfax.