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Missing helicopter found in Magadan Region

Published: 16 September, 2007, 10:17

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Russia's Emergencies Ministry says rescuers have found the Mi-8 helicopter which went missing on Saturday along with the bodies of the six people who were on board. The only person found alive was the chief pilot, who is reported to be seriously injured.

Earlier reports suggested only six people were on board the Mi-8.

It belonged to a forestry commission in the far eastern Magadan Region and was making a commercial flight, when it crashed in a mountainous area on Saturday.

Two of the dead are reported to be tourists from Poland.

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