The Governor of the Irkutsk Region Sergey Levchenko and Deputy Emergency Minister Leonid Belyayev are flying to the site of the Il-76 crash, TASS correspondent reports. It should have made contact almost six hours ago. It said that seven aircraft have been searching for the plane, which went missing in the Bayandayevsky district near Lake Baikal. The communication was lost as the plane was at the height of 3,000 meters. The emergencies ministry plans to parachute in 100 rescue workers to search for the missing plane and the 10 people on board.
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According to the local administration, the search is being conducted by planes because the territory is too large and inaccessible for a ground search and there are no roads in the area.
An Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft flies during military training on Northern navy on March 16, 2015 in Murmansk, Russia.
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According to an worldwide news agency, the aircraft was earlier reported to have 11 people on board, but the number was later revised to 10 people.
