No survivors in crash of Russian helicopter with 22 on board in far east
(VOVWORLD) - Searchers found no survivors among the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that crashed in the far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka with 22 people on board, state news agency TASS said on Sunday.
The Mi-8T helicopter had taken off from a base near the Vachkazhets volcano.
The Kamchatka peninsula, some 7,100 km east of Moscow, was hit by a cyclone over the weekend, with heavy winds and rain, but it was not clear if that was the cause of the crash.