MOSCOW, 12 Aug. Nikolai Korzhenevsky, who survived the fall of the Mi-8 helicopter in Kamchatka, said that the captain had made a decision to land in «monstrous weather conditions»: «nothing was visible except fog.» On Thursday, the helicopter crashed into Lake Kuril in the south of Kamchatka. On board the Mi-8 there were three crew members and 13 passengers, one of them is a child. Eight people escaped, the helicopter delivered several victims to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. “For some reason we flew there, knowing that there were monstrous weather conditions, the captain for some reason decided to land, although he could not see for sure. intelligence and health, the visibility overboard was most likely the same — nothing was visible, literally, except for fog, «Korzhenevsky said on the Russia 24 TV channel.» I think that the competent authorities are on this question must be answered before he drowned along with the helicopter, «the man added.
A passenger who survived the Mi-8 crash told how he managed to escape
