MOSCOW: A passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people crashed in a remote area of Russia's far eastern Amur region on Thursday (Jul 24), killing all on board, authorities said. The plane, a Soviet-made twin-propeller Antonov-24, went down in remote, thickly forested terrain, leaving a column of smoke pouring from the crash site and no signs of survivors, according to state media and videos published by investigators. The Angara Airlines flight was headed to the town of Tynda from the city of