Geopolitics & Foreign Policy
A Russian plane lands on a frozen river by mistake.
As a result of a pilot error, a Soviet-era Antonov-24 aircraft that was carrying thirty people made an emergency landing on a frozen river close to an airfield in the far east of Russia on Thursday, according to the transport prosecutors.
According to the prosecution, the Polar Airlines An-24 made a safe landing on the Kolyma River close to Zyryanka, located in the Yakutia neighborhood.
In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Eastern Siberian transport prosecutor stated, “Preliminary information indicates that the crew’s error while piloting the aircraft was the cause of the aviation incident.”
The prosecution released photographs of the airplane resting on a frozen river. There were photographs of people disembarking that were published in the daily Izvestia.
“The An-24 aircraft landed outside of the runway of the Zyryanka airport,” Polar Airlines announced in a brief statement shortly after reaching the airport.
“There were no casualties,” the statement stated.