A small airliner crashed tonight in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, killing all 37 people on board, the Russian ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
The report did not specify whether the plane belonged to an airline and whether it was used as a passenger or transport craft.
The An-24 is a twin-engine propeller plane with a capacity of 52 passengers. It is commonly used on short runs in former Soviet republics. It also serves frequently as an executive jet.
Air safety has been a major concern for Soviet-built aircraft, though standards have been tightened compared to the early post-communist years.
In the most serious recent crash, 276 people, mostly Iranian servicemen, died aboard an Ilyushin-76 that came down in February 2003 on a mountain in southeastern Iran.
