Three days of mourning declared in Amur after the crash of the AN-24 aircraft

A passenger plane flying from Blagoveshchensk to Tynda in Russia's far east crashed on Thursday, Russian authorities said.

None of the 48 passengers and crew on board have survived, the head of the country's Amur region Vasily Orlov said in a statement Thursday.

He said that all passengers and crew on board the aircraft were killed in the crash. He also announced three days of mourning.