NEW YORK. March 11 (Interfax) - Four Russians, crewmembers of the Mi-8 helicopter that crashed in the Republic of the Congo, died, a military representative of the United Nations announced Sunday night Moscow time.
Earlier reports said that the Mi-8 helicopter of UTair airlines took off for a business flight between two sites in the Congo on Saturday, March 9. However, contact with it was lost 10 kilometers away from the landing site. Bad weather conditions were registered in the area of the reported disappearance of the helicopter.
Later fragments of the helicopter were discovered in the jungle. Nothing was said about what happened to the crew.