The Polar Airlines plane landed safely on the Kolyma River in Russia's far east (Reuters)
A Soviet-era Russian Antonov-24 with 30 passengers on board landed over a frozen river near an airport in Russia's far east on Thursday due to pilot error, according to prosecutors in transport accidents in the country.
Prosecutors said the Polar Airlines plane landed safely on the Kolyma River near Ziryanka in the Yakutia region.
The plane landed on the frozen river due to a crew error in piloting the plane (Reuters)
A spokesman for the transport prosecutor in eastern Siberia said in a statement that the cause of the accident was a mistake on the part of the crew in driving the plane, according to preliminary information.
Prosecutors published photos of the plane on a frozen river, and the Izvestia newspaper published photos of passengers disembarking from the plane.
"The Antonov-24 landed outside the runway at Ziryanka airport," Polar Airlines said in a short statement, stressing that there were no casualties.
Source: Reuters