VLADIVOSTOK, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- An AN-2 aircraft operated by Fair Avia has gone missing over Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, local authorities said on Thursday.

"At 4:45 a.m. Moscow time (0145 GMT), a distress signal was detected from the AN-2 aircraft, tail number 33555, at an altitude of 700 meters. The plane was en route from Milkovo to Ossora," Sergei Lebedev, regional emergency minister, said on social media.

The plane with three crew members aboard presumedly disappeared approximately 80 km south-southeast of the Klyuchi village. Emergency response efforts are underway.

AN-2 is a single-engine plane widely used in Russia's remote areas. Enditem

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