Accident

Wreckage Of Russian Chopper Found, All 22 On Board Killed

New Delhi: The wreckage of the Russian helicopter which had gone missing a day earlier was found on Sunday.

The chopper with 22 people on board – 3 crew members and 19 passengers — crashed in the far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka. Search teams found no survivor, state news agency TASS said.

The Mi-8T helicopter had taken off from a base near the Vachkazhets volcano, reported Reuters.

The cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained.

Kamchatka Peninsula, located around 7,100 km east of Moscow, was hit by a cyclone over the weekend which brought strong winds and rain.

OB Bureau

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