A PASSENGER plane has crashed into a remote 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 when it vanished.
Emergency officials then confirmed the worst fears when the burning wreckage of the plane was discovered nine miles from the airport.
The fuselage was found ablaze, said the Ministry of Emergency Situations, after an Mi-8 rescue helicopter spotted the crash site amid dense forest and mountainous terrain.
There were no immediate signs of survivors.
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