A plane with 28 people on board has gone missing in Russia’s Far East region, the country’s emergencies ministry has said.

An An-26 plane with 22 passengers and six crew flying from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Palana missed a scheduled communication, local emergency officials said.

According to the local transport ministry, it also disappeared from the radars.

An investigation has been launched, and a search mission is under way.

Two helicopters and an airplane have been deployed to inspect the missing plane’s route.

The plane belonged to a company called Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise.

It was coming in for landing when contact was lost about 10km (six miles) away from Palana’s airport.

The head of the local government in Palana, Olga Mokhireva, was aboard the flight, spokespeople of the Kamchatka government said.

Interfax news agency quoted the local meteorology centre as saying that weather in the area was cloudy.

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