At least 19 dead in Russian helicopter crash in Siberia
Saturday, October 22, 2016 IST
Around 19 individuals were killed when a helicopter slammed in northwestern Siberia, Russia's Investigative Committee said Saturday.
Agents said in an announcement that a Mi-8 helicopter conveying 22 individuals had slammed Friday night outside the city of Novy Urengoy and that "19 individuals have kicked the bucket from different wounds at the scene, as indicated by preparatory information."
The helicopter was flying from the Siberian area of Krasnoyarsk to the town of Urengoy in the Yamalo-Nenetsky locale when it slammed Friday somewhere around 1400 and 1500 GMT, specialists said.
The territorial branch of the crises service said it had been educated that a helicopter made a hard finding somewhere in the range of 80 kilometers outside Novy Urengoy on Friday however did not at first report any losses.
Crisis specialists were dispatched to the scene and figured out how to spare three individuals from the destruction, the service said.
The survivors were transported to a doctor's facility in Novy Urengoy, agents said.
The Investigative Committee said that the crash could have been brought on by an infringement of flight security directions, a mechanical issue or troublesome climate conditions.
A criminal test had been propelled to examine conceivable infringement, it included.
The crises service said that mist and troublesome perceivability conditions had frustrated the hunt down the crash site, and additionally the protect operation.
A comparable helicopter crash outside the western Siberian town of Igarka a year ago guaranteed 15 lives.
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