Kushone abantu abayisithupha engozini yeMil Mi-8 endaweni yaseKhabarovsk empumalanga ekude yeRussia, kusho isiphathimandla sezindiza eRussia, uRosaviatsiya, etshela abezindaba zeTASS ngoMgqibelo.
Indiza enophephela emhlane yeVostok Aviation Company yenze indiza phakathi kwemizana emibili. Kuleyo ndawo bekukhona amalungu amathathu abasebenzi kanye nabagibeli abangu-13.
Indiza enophephela emhlane bekufanele ifike endaweni yokugcina lapho kufika khona ngo-10: 20 ngesikhathi saseMoscow, kodwa izisebenzi azikhulumanga ngesikhathi esifanele. Ngemuva kwalokho, izindiza ezinophephela emhlane ezimbili ze-Mi-8 nendiza i-Antonov-26 zaqala ukufuna indiza engelutho.
"Kamuva, ukaputeni ukwazile ukuxhumana nenkampani futhi wabika ukuthi indiza enophephela emhlane yaphahlazeka amakhilomitha amathathu lapho iya khona yacwila khona," kusho umthombo, engeza ngokwemininingwane yokuqala amalungu amathathu abasebenzi kanye nabagibeli abayisikhombisa basindile kule ngozi, kwathi abagibeli abayisithupha bashona .
Isiphathimandla sathi abatakuli namanje abakwazanga ukufika lapho kwenzeke khona ingozi ngenxa yenkungu esindayo. Iziphathimandla zendawo zixhumana nabatakuli basolwandle ukuze imikhumbi yolwandle ijoyine umsebenzi wokutakula.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- “Later on, the captain managed to communicate the company and reported the helicopter crashed three kilometres to the destination and sunk,”.
- Six people died in a crash of a Mil Mi-8 in the Khabarovsk territory in Russia's far east, the Russian aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, told TASS news agency on Saturday.
- The authority said rescuers still could not get to the site of the crash due to a heavy fog.
