Saturday: 19 people die in helicopter crash in northern area Russia


3 survivors taken to sanatorium after Mi-eight carrying oil workers comes down 28 miles north-east of Staryi Urengoi




19 humans were killed after a helicopter carrying oil employees crashed in northern Russia.

America’s aviation business enterprise stated 16 of the nineteen passengers and all three organization contributors died at the same time as the aircraft crashed on Friday afternoon. The three survivors had been taken to sanatorium.

The Mi-eight helicopter changed into visiting from Vankor to Staryi Urengoi in the Yamalo-Nenets vicinity at the same time as it got here down about 28 miles (45km) north-east of its tour spot.

It took rescuers seven hours to gather the crash internet site amid fog and horrible visibility. Colonel Dmitry Alexandrov, a close-by authorities valid, said the helicopter “fell on its proper element, and the sufferers could not get out”.

The governor of Yamalo-Nenets, Dmitry Kobylkin, brought a day of mourning on Saturday with flags diminished and amusement activities cancelled, calling the twist of future a deliver of “outstanding sorrow for every person”.

Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, expressed his condolences to the own family and friends of people who died, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated.

The aircraft, owned via way of the Siberian Skol aviation enterprise, changed into transporting personnel from a subcontractor of the Russian oil big Rosneft, the Tass records enterprise stated.

Russia’s investigative committee stated the crash could have been because of a failure to conform with flight safety rules, mechanical problems or difficult weather situations. The business employer has opened a criminal research.

The twin-engined Mi-8 collection is the maximum a fulfillment Russian helicopter version, with more than 12,000 produced because it grow to be first constructed in the late Nineteen Sixties.

They were furnished to greater than 100 global locations and feature spent about 100m hours inside the air. But, there were numerous crashes related to the helicopters n modern-day years.

In July 2013, an Mi-8 wearing 25 passengers crashed in a far off region of eastern Siberia, killing 21 people.

In June 2014, 16 humans died after an Mi-eight with 18 people onboard plunged into Lake Munozero, near Murmansk, in northern Russia.

And in November 2015, 15 people died while an Mi-8 crashed close to Igarka in western Siberia, on the equal time as every different 10 have been injured.
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