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| Mi-8 helicopter with 22 people on board disappears in Kamchatka |
| 2024-09-01 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Mi-8 helicopter of the Vityaz-Aero airline stopped communicating in the area of ​​the Vachkazhets volcano in Kamchatka, there are 22 people on board, the press service of the Federal Air Transport Agency reported. According to preliminary data, there are three crew members and 19 passengers on board. "The aircraft was flying from a site in the area of ​​Vachkazhets Volcano to the Nikolaevka site (17 km southwest of Yelizovo Airport). But at the appointed time, around 07:15 Moscow time, the helicopter crew failed to make contact," said Rosaviatsiya spokesman Artem Korenyako. Korenyako added that another Mi-8 helicopter had already taken off to search for the missing aircraft. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the light aircraft that disappeared in Primorsky Krai was found crashed, the passenger and the pilot were killed. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of the incident. According to preliminary data, communication with the aircraft was lost on the afternoon of August 6 in the area of ​​Lysaya Mountain on the border of the Terneysky and Krasnoarmeysky districts of Primorye. Earlier, a Mi-8 helicopter of the North-West Aviation Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations disappeared from radar in Karelia. There were three crew members on board - the captain, the second pilot and the flight engineer. The vessel's emergency beacon did not work, searchers reported. The wreckage of the tail section of the helicopter and a large ice hole were found several hours later on the lake itself near the village of Derevyannoye. |
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