A plane with 28 people on board has gone missing in Russia’s Far East region, local officials have 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.