MOSCOW, 12 Aug. There is virtually no chance of finding the surviving passengers of the Mi-8 helicopter that crashed in Kamchatka alive, Governor Vladimir Solodov said. On Thursday the helicopter crashed into Lake Kuril in southern Kamchatka. On board the Mi-8 there were three crew members and 13 passengers, one of them is a child. Eight people were saved, the helicopter delivered several victims to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
“The entire surface of the lake has been combed several times both from the water and from the air, I myself have just returned from the Kuril Lake and saw that there are no debris, no remnants of things. Nevertheless, the coastal part is also being examined. Nothing was found there either. And the likelihood of finding people alive is practically absent, «- said Solodov on the air of the TV channel» Russia 24 «.
As the governor explained, there is practically no probability, since, according to eyewitnesses, the helicopter itself «sank very quickly.» According to him, the depth at the crash site is 136 meters, and divers cannot descend to that depth.
A passenger who survived the Mi-8 crash told how he managed to escape According to Solodov, there are certain regulations and terms when people can be declared dead or missing: «We cannot announce such decisions so far.» The child on board the Mi-8 helicopter that crashed in Kamchatka is not listed among the rescued, said the governor of the Kamchatka Territory Vladimir Solodov. «Among the rescued he (the child — ed.) Does not appear,» «The governor added that among the eight rescued there is no aircraft commander.» The crew commander was not found, «he said.
Survivor of the fall of the Mi-8 in Kamchatka spoke about the crash