MOSCOW. March 4 (Interfax) - The Russian Interior Ministry has confirmed reports that its helicopter has crash-landed on the border between the Vladimir and Ivanovo regions, a ministry spokesman told Interfax.
"Today, an AOSN Yastreb helicopter, owned by the Russian Interior Ministry's Rapid Response Special Operations Forces Center, crash-landed in a forested area on the border between the Vladimir and Ivanovo regions when conducting an investigative operation for the Interior Ministry's Ivanovo regional branch to track down woodlands use crimes," the spokesman said.
The helicopter was carrying four people, he said.
"Contact has already been established with them," he added.
For his part, a spokesman for the Transport Prosecutor's Office in the Volga district reported that its officials were en route to the scene.
"The preliminary information available indicates that a transport accident involving a helicopter occurred on the border between the Ivanovo and Vladimir regions. Vladimir's transport prosecutor has left for the scene to establish the circumstances of the accident," he told Interfax.