MOSCOW. Dec 26 (Interfax) - An An-12 plane crashed en route from the Novosibirsk region to the Irkutsk region, a source in the emergency services of the Siberian Federal District told Interfax on Thursday.
"The plane was owned by an aircraft factory. It crashed en route from the Novosibirsk aerodrome Yeltsovka to the aircraft factory of the Irkutsk-2 aerodrome. The pilots are feared dead," the source said.
The plane crashed while landing at the Irkutsk-2 aerodrome, he said. The source said the plane was carrying a crew of six people.
The Emergency Situations Ministry's Main Department for the Irkutsk region confirmed that a senior on-duty official of the regional crisis management center received information on the crash of an An-12 plane in the area of the station Batareinaya at 4:38 on Thursday.
Firefighters and other emergency services have left for the scene, Andrei Shutov, the head of the Emergency Situations Ministry's Main Department, told Interfax.