STAVROPOL. July 22 (Interfax-AVN) - Investigators from the military prosecutor's office and aviation experts are working at the MI-8 Hip helicopter crash site in the North Caucasus.
The Federal Border Guard Service helicopter went down in the mountains of the Ingush autonomous republic on July 20.
"A part of the team reached the crash site (3,000 meters over the sea level) by automobiles while the rest traveled on a helicopter," Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Livantsov, chief spokesman for the North Caucasus regional border guard department, told Interfax-Military News Agency. "The day before, border guards surveyed the terrain and selected a landing pad for the helicopter. We cannot indicate the exact site of the MI-8 crash in the interests of the search team's security," he said.
Preliminary results of the investigation will be available in the evening when the group returns from the site, the spokesman said.
The helicopter carried eight border guards of the Nazran unit and four crewmembers.