Russia's only aircraft carrier, the 40-year-old Admiral Kuznetsov, is likely to be sold or scrapped, the chairman of Russia's state shipbuilding corporation told the Kommersant newspaper in comments published on Friday.

Russia's Murmansk region, close to NATO member Finland, hosts several naval and airbases, and is home to a significant chunk of Moscow's submarine fleet.

Russian emergency crews have found the burning fuselage of a passenger plane that went missing Thursday in far eastern Russian, officials said.