Missing Russian helicopter found in Far East, no survivors

Russia's TASS news agency said on September 1 that search forces found no survivors in the wreckage of a Russian helicopter carrying 22 people that crashed in the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Far East.

Image of a Mi-8T helicopter belonging to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, the same type as the Russian helicopter that crashed on August 31, killing 22 people. (Source: ROSTEC)

The Mi-8T helicopter, which took off from a base near the Vachkazhets volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula, about 7,100 km east of Moscow, was hit by a storm at the weekend, with high winds and rain, but it was not clear whether that was the cause of the crash.

Earlier, Interfax news agency on August 31 cited preliminary data from the Russian Air Transport Agency showing that a Russian helicopter carrying three crew members and 19 passengers went missing in the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Far East.

The Russian Mi-8T helicopter took off from a base near the Vachkazhets volcano. The crew failed to report as scheduled at 04:00 GMT (11:00 the same day Hanoi time).

"The Vityaz-Aero helicopter did not arrive at the landing site," the local emergency response agency said on August 31. "The Mi-8 took off from the Vachkazhets volcano area to the village of Nikolaevka, Yelizovsky district, a flight distance of 25 km."

Russian media reported that the Mi-8 took off at 4:10 p.m. local time (11:10 a.m. Hanoi time), lost contact and disappeared from radar screens five minutes later.

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