Moscow, Aug 4 (IBNS): At least 18 people were killed as a Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the north of Krasnoyarsk region, East Siberia, media reports said on Saturday.
"There were three crewmembers and 15 passenger abroad the Mi-8 that belonged to Utair airline," source told Russia's Tass news agency.
The source said all of them were killed in the mishap.
A well-informed official in the law enforcement agencies told TASS the helicopter had taken off from the town of Igarka, located on the River Yenisei to the north of the Arctic Circle.
According to reports, the helicopter crashed immediately after take off.
Law enforcers told TASS the helicopter crashed because of midair collision with a cargo carried by another helicopter.
"It crashed immediately after takeoff because of collision with the cargo carried by another helicopter that was also airborne at the moment," a police source told the news agency.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
