{"id":8182,"date":"2024-09-01T22:59:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8182"},"modified":"2024-09-01T22:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T17:14:12","slug":"17-bodies-found-after-kamchatka-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/17-bodies-found-after-kamchatka-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"17 bodies found after Kamchatka helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Rescuers on Sunday said they had found 17 bodies after a helicopter crashed with 22 people aboard in Russia&#8217;s Kamchatka peninsula in the far east.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter went missing shortly after takeoff Saturday carrying 19 tourists and 3 crew, regional authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Kamchatka is a picturesque, wild region popular for adventure tourism due to its active volcanoes and pristine nature.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers spotted the remains of the helicopter on Sunday morning in a hilly area at a height of 900 metres, Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov said in a video posted on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial video footage posted by Russia&#8217;s emergency situations ministry showed helicopter debris lying on a slope close to the top of a large wooded hill.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the aircraft was found close to the location where it went off the radar.<\/p>\n<p>A ministry official, Ivan Lemikhov, said: &#8220;At this moment we have already found 17 bodies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rescuers have set up camp and the search has halted until daybreak,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Mi-8 is a Soviet-designed military helicopter that is widely used for transport in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter that crashed was operated by a Kamchatka-based company called Vityaz-aero that organises flights for tourists, according to the emergencies ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Accidents involving planes and helicopters are very frequent in Russia&#8217;s far eastern region, which is sparsely populated and where many areas are only accessible by helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2021, a Mi-8 helicopter with 16 people on board including 13 tourists crashed into a lake in Kamchatka due to poor visibility, killing eight.<\/p>\n<p>In July the same year, a plane crashed as it came in to land on the peninsula, with 22 passengers and six crew aboard, all of whom were killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers on Sunday said they had found 17 bodies after a helicopter crashed with 22 people aboard in Russia&#8217;s Kamchatka peninsula in the far east. The helicopter went missing shortly after takeoff Saturday carrying 19 tourists and 3 crew, regional authorities said. Kamchatka is a picturesque, wild region popular for adventure tourism due to its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8184,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182\/revisions\/8184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}