Donetsk Regional Prosecutor Volodymyr Vyshynsky has said that three of the five people killed in Wednesday's plane crash at Donetsk Airport have been identified.

He said they had virtually no doubt about the identity of three of the victims, and had a good idea who the other two were. However, they still needed to complete the identification procedure for the latter, the prosecutor said.

Vyshynsky said that all the victims were male.

"As for the unregistered passengers, Odesa investigators are looking into this matter, they are trying to establish the reasons for which these passengers were not registered for the flight," he said.

As reported, the An-24 aircraft of South Airlines on flight from Odesa to Donetsk overshot the runway at Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport on Wednesday evening. The aircraft overturned and the aircraft's fuselage broke. A total of 52 people were on board the aircraft, including eight crewmembers.

Five people were killed, and nine were hospitalized.

It was a charter flight, and all the passengers were football fans heading for Donetsk to watch Shakhtar Donetsk play Borussia Dortmund.

A criminal case has been opened into the crash on charges of violating the air safety rules that resulted in the death of people. Ukraine's Donetsk Region Prosecutor's Officer is in charge of the inquiry.