Officials said wreckage from a jet that went missing in Russia's Far East region of Kamchatka on Tuesday was discovered about five kilometers from a runway at an airport on the coast where it was meant to land.

An Antonov An-26 plane carrying 22 passengers and six crew members was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana on the shore of the Okhotsk Sea when it missed a scheduled communication and vanished from radar as it approached land.

The aircraft's fuselage was discovered on land along the coast, according to Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov, while other wreckage was discovered close in the Okhotsk Sea.

None of the 28 persons on board survived the collision, according to Russian media reports.

The jet belongs to Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise, a firm based in Kamchatka. According to Russian state news agency Tass, the plane has been in service since 1982. The plane was technically sound before taking off in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, according to the company's director, Alexei Khabarov.

The incident has been the subject of a criminal investigation. Sergei Gorb, deputy director of Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise, said the plane "practically crashed into a sea cliff," which wasn't meant to be in the plane's landing trajectory.

When contact was lost approximately 10 kilometers (six miles) from Palana's airport, the jet was on its way to land. According to Kamchatka government officials, the helicopter carried the head of the local administration in Palana, Olga Mokhireva.

An Antonov An-28 airliner owned by Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise crashed into a mountain in 2012 while flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk to Palana for a landing. There were a total of 14 persons on board, with ten of them being killed. According to Tass, both of the pilots who were killed had alcohol in their blood.