Russia: Search Resumes For Missing Helicopter In Far East
Vladivostok, Russia; 21 August 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Teams of rescuers and the military today resumed the search for a missing helicopter in Russia's Far East.
Emergency officials say there were at least 17 passengers on board the Mi-8 helicopter, including Igor Farkhutdinov, the governor of Sakhalin island. Most of the remaining passengers were also senior regional officials.
Four airplanes and a dozen helicopters as well as border patrol boats and ships off the Kamchatka coast have joined the search operation.
The Mi-8 helicopter, which also had three crew on board, was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the Kamchatka peninsula, to Severo-Kurilsk, on the Kuril islands, when it lost radio contact soon after take-off early yesterday.
Copyright (c) 2003. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org
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