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United Kingdom Helicopter with 14 on board crashes in Russia: officials
Published on 30/06/2014
Some 14 people were missing on Monday after their helicopter crashed in the Russian Far East, officials said, the latest aviation tragedy to hit the country.
The Mi-8 helicopter carrying firefighters crashed near the village of Chekunda in the Khabarovsk region.
A spokeswoman for regional prosecutors, Oxana Polshanova, said the fate of the passengers remained unknown.
Aviation crashes are frequent in Russia and are often blamed on ageing aircraft and poor maintenance.