The death count in Monday’s air crash near the Urals city of Tyumen has risen to 32, the regional department of the Emergencies Ministry said.

Eleven people were injured in the crash. All those injured are in intensive care, doctors said.

A UTair ATR-72 plane bound from Tyumen to Surgut fell on takeoff on Monday at 5:50 a.m. Moscow Time. There were 39 passengers and four crew on board.

All crewmembers died, a source close to air traffic controllers told.

A rescue operation headquarters spokesman said the aircraft fell some two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Gorkovka village near Roshchnino Airport.

A criminal case has been opened, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.

Rescuers have discovered both flight recorders on the site, a spokesman for the rescue operation headquarters said.

Connection with the ATR-72 aircraft was lost almost immediately upon takeoff, a spokesman for the Federal Air Transport Agency told the PRIME news agency.

A law enforcement spokesman told by phone that there had been no children on board.

Investigators consider technical failure as the most likely cause of Monday’s crash of a UTair ATR 72 aircraft near the western Siberian city of Tyumen, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.

A deputy prosecutor in Tyumen, Valentin Tarasov, said one person who was to have flown on board the aircraft failed to appear for the flight, which may have saved his life.

The crash was the deadliest air disaster in Russia since a Yak-42 plane crashed into a riverbank near the city of Yaroslavl after takeoff on Sept. 7, 2011, killing 44 people and wiping out the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team.

President Dmitry Medvedev called for a reduction in the number of Russian airlines and improvements in crew training after that crash, which followed a June crash that killed 47 people including a navigator who had been drinking.

ATR statement on UTair Flight 120

ATR regrets to confirm that an ATR 72-201 operated by Russia’s carrier UTair was involved in an accident today at around 7.50 am (local time) near Korkovka (in Western Siberia). Flight 120 was operating between Tyumen and Surgut with 39 passengers and 4 crewmembers.

The aircraft, registered under VP-BYZ, was MSN (Manufacturing Serial Number) 332, initially delivered from the production line in October 1992. UTair had been operating this aircraft since August 2008.

The Russian Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) will lead the investigation and will be the official source of information. According to international regulations, ATR will advise the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et Analyses (BEA), safety investigation authority representing the state of the aircraft manufacturer. At this time, the circumstances of the accident are still to be determined.

The ATR 72-201 is a 68- to 74-seat twin turboprop engine aircraft.

ATR express its deepest sympathy to the families, friends and loved ones affected by the accident.