Contact was lost with a plane in Russia’s the Far East, with 29 people on board, according to reports.

According to accounts, the An-26 was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana on the Kamchatka Peninsula when it failed to make a planned communication.

Moscow, Russian Federation: Local officials reported Tuesday that contact with a passenger jet carrying more than two dozen people in Russia’s Far Eastern region of Kamchatka had been lost.

The An-26 was traveling from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka’s capital, to Palana, when it vanished and failed to land as planned, according to Valentina Glazova, a spokesperson for the local transport prosecutor’s office.

She stated that there were 29 individuals on board, including 23 passengers and six crew members.

She stated, “Search and rescue activities are ongoing.” “All that is known at this moment, what has been established, is that the plane’s contact was disrupted and it did not land.”

She claimed the jet was operated by a small aviation business on Kamchatka, a large peninsula on the Pacific Ocean in Russia’s far east.

Local officials told Russian news media that there were 28 persons on board, including six staff members, and that one or two children were among the passengers.

According to reports, a search including at least two helicopters had been begun, and rescue workers were on standby.

A Saratov Airlines An-148 aircraft crashed near Moscow in February 2018, killing all 71 persons on board shortly after takeoff. The disaster was eventually determined to be the result of human error, according to an inquiry.

Non-fatal air mishaps that result in rerouted flights and emergency landings are also common in Russia, generally due to technical difficulties.

After a flock of birds got pulled into the engines shortly after take-off, a Ural Airlines flight carrying more than 230 people made a miraculous landing in a Moscow cornfield in August 2019.

A Utair Boeing 737 carrying 100 people crashed into the ground on its belly in northern Russia in February 2020 when the landing mechanism failed.