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| Most passengers feared dead after helicopter with 22 onboard crash-lands in NW Siberia | Most passengers feared dead after helicopter with 22 onboard crash-lands in NW Siberia |
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| An Mi-8 helicopter with 22 people onboard crash-landed on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia. A search and rescue operation is under way. Only one person onboard is believed to be alive, a Russian Emergencies Ministry source told RIA Novosti. | An Mi-8 helicopter with 22 people onboard crash-landed on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia. A search and rescue operation is under way. Only one person onboard is believed to be alive, a Russian Emergencies Ministry source told RIA Novosti. |
| Rescuers have found the crash site, the Emergencies Ministry’s Urals regional center has said.“The Mi-8 spotted the helicopter. A place for landing is being chosen now near the crash-landing site,” a spokesman told TASS. | Rescuers have found the crash site, the Emergencies Ministry’s Urals regional center has said.“The Mi-8 spotted the helicopter. A place for landing is being chosen now near the crash-landing site,” a spokesman told TASS. |
| Earlier, a survivor of the crash reached the rescuers via a cell phone. The man said he was trapped in the wreckage and was not sure of the condition of the other passengers and crew. | Earlier, a survivor of the crash reached the rescuers via a cell phone. The man said he was trapped in the wreckage and was not sure of the condition of the other passengers and crew. |
| Two rescue helicopters with paramedics and emergency workers have been dispatched to the site, with a total of 140 people now involved in the operation.Poor visibility is being reported on the ground.Reports of the Mi-8 helicopter crash-landing 80 kilometers northwest of the settlement of Urengoy came in late Friday local time. The helicopter, belonging to the Skol air company, was flying to the Suzumskoye oil and gas field in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, TASS reported. | |
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