According to the Ministry of Russian Emergency situations, the rescue helicopter found no survivors while flying over the accident region
A plane with 49 people on board crashed on Thursday (24) in the region of Amur, in the Far East of announced local authorities. A MI-8 helicopter operated by the Russian Civil Aviation Agency Rosaviapsia “detected the fuselage in flames of the aircraft,” said the Ministry of Emergency Situations on Telegram. The Civil Protection Center of this remote region also indicated that the helicopter did not detect any survivors while flew over the site, but that teams investigate the incident on land.
The same source indicated that the fuselage was located 16 kilometers from the city of Tinda. Earlier, the region’s governor, Vasili Orlov, had warned that the aircraft, which was flying between Blagoveshchensk and Tinda, had disappeared from the radars. Airplane and helicopter accidents are common in the Far East Russian, remote and poorly populated region, where many trips need to be made by air due to long distances.
In late August 2024, 22 people died when a Soviet-made MI-8 helicopter fell into Kamchatka. In August 2021, another MI-8 with 16 people on board, including 13 tourists, fell into a lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula due to poor visibility. Eight people died.
*With information from AFP
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