Angara Airlines Flight 2311

Angara Airlines Flight 2311 was a scheduled domestic flight from Ignatyevo Airport to Tynda Airport, operated by Angara Airlines. On 24 July 2025, an Antonov An-24 operating that flight crashed in Amur Oblast, Russia during its second landing attempt in poor visibility. The crashed site is about 16 km from Tynda airport into a forest near Tynda in eastern Russia. All 42 passengers and 6 crew members on board died.

Accident

The plane landed at Ignatyevo Airport at 08:20 to refuel and let new passengers board before taking off again at 11:20. The plane was originally scheduled to depart at 09:10 but there was a 1-hour and 35 minute delay due to poor weather. According to Interfax, the flight route included stops at Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk and Tynda. At the time of the crash, the flight was nearing its final destination of Tynda, a city in Amur Oblast, when it disappeared from radar. The aircraft had made a missed final approach in the poor visibility around Tynda airport and had to make a second attempt to land, during which it failed to report at a checkpoint. Contact with the aircraft was lost at 13:00 VLAT (UTC+10:00). No distress calls were received from the flight crew.

At the time of the accident, the winds were blowing northeast at 4 kn, visibility was unlimited (more than 10 km) with light rain, scattered cumulonimbus clouds at 210 m, and other broken clouds at 600 m. The temperature was 17 C with a QNH pressure of 1002 hPa.

The burning wreckage of the aircraft was found at 17:30 by a Rosaviatsiya rescue helicopter, 16 km from Tynda. Russian media reported the wreckage was located on a mountainside with no survivors. There were no roads to the crash site so a rescue team numbering more than 100 people used heavy machinery to cut a path. Rescuers reached the crash site at 23:00. Ground access to the site was hampered by the remote and swampy terrain.