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| An Mi-8 helicopter carrying mine workers crashes in Kolyma |
| 2024-03-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. It's Siberia. [Regnum] On March 14, an Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Magadan region. According to a REN TV source, the Mi-8 was transporting 20 workers from one of the mines in Kolyma. “Two people died, the fate of the others is unknown,” emergency services said. The helicopter belongs to Dalnerechensk Avia. The governor of the Magadan region, Sergei Nosov, confirmed the accident. In the Telegram channel, the head of the region reported that rescuers and doctors went to the North Evensky district, where the emergency occurred. As Regnum reported, a Mi-8 helicopter of the Federal Security Service crashed in the Sosnovsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, killing three people. The cause of the helicopter crash was a technical failure. The Mi-8 was performing a training flight. Six people died and nine were injured in a Mi-8 helicopter crash in the village of Tungur in the Altai Republic. The helicopter crashed during landing. It touched electrical wires, caught fire and fell. |
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