Forty-eight people have died in a plane crash in Russia's Far East, the head of the country's Amur region said in a statement Thursday.

Marina Avalyan asked to be allowed off the Angara Airlines flight moments before takeoff after receiving a call from her family

Flight recorders have been found at the crash site of a passenger plane in eastern Russia a day after the deadly accident, according to the Russian Transport Ministry on Friday. The recorders are to be brought to Moscow for decoding,