A Russian passenger plane that disappeared in Siberia has been located with all 19 people aboard still alive

“ The plane extended its landing gear, but flipped after it made the hard landing,”

That’s some skill! The AN28 has a fixed gear ;-)

I'm convinced that every media outlet should hire an aviation pro to look over their releases for accuracy, especially the movie business..

The article fails to mention how long ago the crash occurred. We don’t know if they were stranded for five years or five minutes,

Thankfully....they found them before they began to eat each other

The article refers to https://www.interfax.ru/russia/778241 from July 16 2021

Russian is not my native language (and neither is English), but approximate translation is below. Notice the 'original' report says 13 passengers, not 19

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An AN-28 airplaine disappeared close to Tomsk with 13 people on board

Moskow. 16 july 2021. INTERFAX.RU - A passenger AN-28 disappeared close to Tomsk, there is a fix on the beacon signal, an informed source communicated to "Interfax"

"An airplane AN-28 stopped communicating, later the emergency beacon was started and has been detected. Search is taking place" - said the source

On board the airplane are found 13 people, including 4 children.

Based on preliminary data, the airplane belongs to "Light Siberia Aviation" airline. It was on an internal route from Kedrovy to Tomsk.

The source supposed, that the missing AN-28 could have landed in the Bochkarsk region of the Tomsk oblast. "Based on preliminary data, a search square was established, from which we are able to receive a beacon signal", clarified he (the source)

In search of the missing airplane aviation was dispatched, including MI-8 helicopters.
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Remarks:
* The city of Kedrovy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedrovy,_Tomsk_Oblast
* As per Google Maps distance by car is 1,200 km (by way of Novosibirsk) and it would take 16 hours. Distance by air (direct line) is 480 km
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Omsk,+Russia/Kedrovy,+Tomsk+Oblast,+Russia,+636615/


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Copy of content from https://www.interfax.ru/russia/778241 is below as retrieved on July 24, 2021

Самолет Ан-28 пропал под Томском с 13 людьми на борту
Москва. 16 июля. INTERFAX.RU - Пассажирский Ан-28 пропал под Томском, зафиксирован сигнал аварийного маяка, сообщил "Интерфаксу" информированный источник.

"Самолет Ан-28 перестал выходить на связь, позднее зафиксировано срабатывание аварийного маяка. Ведутся поиски", - сказал источник.

На борту самолета находятся 13 человек, включая четырех детей.

По предварительным данным, самолет принадлежит авиакомпании "Сибирская легкая авиация". Он совершал внутрирегиональный рейс по маршруту Кедровый-Томск.

Источник предположил, что пропавший Ан-28 мог совершить жесткую посадку в Бакчарском районе Томской области. "По предварительным данным, установлен квадрат поиска в Бакчарском районе, оттуда поступают сигналы маяка", - пояснил он.

На поиски пропавшего самолета направлена авиация, в том числе вертолеты Ми-8.

Thank goodness!

Likely built for strength not weight and money savings. Flipping a plane and everyone survives without seats flying and plane turning to shards butchering people is nice. Easy to make them laugh telling them any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

Believe it or not, they found it parked right next to Malaysian 370!

Praise the King of the universe.

I have a mistake above. The destination is Tomsk, not Omsk. As per Google Maps the 480 km trip would take 6:30 h by car. Direct line distance is 370 km

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kedrovy,+Tomsk+Oblast,+Russia,+636615/Tomsk,+Tomsk+Oblast,+Russia/

I hate it when I run out of birdseed...

So-called journalism really IS dead! Not word one of WHEN this all happened! Pathetic!