An24 Angara w/o after landing in river Ob, Russia

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An24 Angara w/o after landing in river Ob, Russia

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according to Dutch newspaper Telegraaf, an An24 belonging to Russian airline Angara made an emergency landing in the river Ob in Siberia following an inflight engine fire. Sadly, 5 of the 33 occupants perished. Date for the accident is not given in the Dutch paper, but (edit) Sunday July 10, 2011 is confirmed by the link below.

edit: thanks to JS5172, found this link:

http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/183106.html
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Re: An24 Angara w/o after landing in river Ob, Russia

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Sad news,

Serial of the AN-24; RA-47302
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Check this link http://avherald.com/h?article=43f853ce&opt=0 including photo's...
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Re: An24 Angara w/o after landing in river Ob, Russia

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Here is a video of the crash:

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/07/12/rus ... rivier-ob/
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