It’s a miracle!   All 19 people on board a Russian passenger plane survived when it made an emergency landing in Siberia on Friday. The Russian Antonov An-28 passenger plane had vanished from radars in Siberia but surprisingly survived after the aircraft made a hard landing on Friday, the emergencies ministry said.

The aircraft — operated by SiLA, a small airline offering regional flights in Siberia — went missing while flying from the town of Kedrovy to the city of Tomsk. But the aircraft was located after helicopters were dispatched to search for it.

The ministry said all 19 people on board had survived and were now being evacuated from the site. Pilots Anatoly Prytkov, 56, and Faruh Khasanov, 32, were credited with landing the aircraft safely in rough terrain after one of its two engines failed.

The incident comes less than two weeks after a similar aircraft, an Antonov An-26, crashed into a cliff in poor visibility conditions on the remote Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east, killing all 28 people on board.

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An Antonov-28, the same type of plane that went missing over Tomsk, crashed in a Kamchatka forest in 2012, killing 10 people. Investigators said both pilots were drunk at the time of the crash.

Russian aviation safety standards have improved in recent years but accidents, especially involving aging planes in far-flung regions, are not uncommon.