A Mi-2 helicopter with five people aboard has crashed in the Kostroma Region in central European Russia, a source in the emergencies services told TASS on Tuesday.
"A Mi-2 helicopter, which was on a sanitary flight, crashed some four kilometers of the Sokerkino airport in the Kostroma Region. There were five people onboard," the source said.
The crash was not followed by fire.
The regional health department has confirmed the death of a patient who was being airlifted from the city of Sharya to Kostroma. It was a 67-year-old man with a cardiovascular disease.
A Mi-2 helicopter, which was on a medevac flight from the village of Sharya to Kostroma, crashed some four kilometers of Kostroma’s Sokerkino airport on Tuesday evening. The aircraft had five people on board: two pilots, two medics and a patient. The patient died in the crash and the four others were hurt. They were evacuated from the site by helicopters. According to the emergencies services, the crash might have been caused either by a technical malfunction or a piloting error.
