Questions are being asked after the fire-damaged wreck of an Antonov-2 biplane lost for almost a year was found just five miles from where it took off.
The plane and its 13 passengers disappeared after going on an unauthorised 'joyride' from Serov in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, on June 11 last year.
Despite an extensive search lasting several months over an area the size of Western Europe, the wreckage remained undetected - although it apparently crashed just five miles from where it took off.
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Some believe there has been a conspiracy to cover up the truth.
Andrey Safronov, father of Anton Safronov, who was travelling aboard the plane with his wife Julia, told the Siberian Times: 'They searched there last summer. All around was searched and nothing was found'.
'Last year's hunt was conducted by elite OMON troops, it was claimed. And now - suddenly - everything was found.
'And, most importantly, it was all on the surface, all the debris on the surface, all the bones on the surface, even though it was burning'.
Mr Safronov claimed the crash site was staged to look like the scene of the tragedy and that there could be sinister circumstances behind the plane's downing.'
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