Posted 11 февраля 2022,, 06:51

Published 11 февраля 2022,, 06:51

Modified 24 декабря 2022,, 22:38

Updated 24 декабря 2022,, 22:38

The body of the co-pilot of the crashed An-2 was found in Kamchatka

The body of the co-pilot of the crashed An-2 was found in Kamchatka

11 февраля 2022, 06:51
Фото: Пресс-служба губернатора Камчатского края
The body of the second crew member of the crashed An-2 aircraft was found near the village of Severnye Koryaki in the Elizovsky district of the Kamchatka Territory. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of the fall of the board.

A private airliner of the Kamchatsky Krechet company was transporting cargo to Ossora and crashed during takeoff from an unequipped runway. There were two people on the plane, both of them died.

The prosecutor's office is investigating the incident.

The cause of the crash is currently unknown. At the scene the investigation team is working.

Recall that on August 12, a Mi-8 helicopter of Vityaz-Aero airlines with 13 passengers on board, including a child, and three crew members on board, crashed in the Kuril lake in Kamchatka. He transported tourists from Moscow and St. Petersburg by plane. Eight of them managed to survive after the crash.

In the same month , an An-26 crash in the Kamchatka Territory killed 28 people. There are no survivors of the plane crash. The Federal Air Transport Agency believes that pilot error was the main cause of the passenger plane crash.

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