Air search for An-2 missing in Kamchatka interrupted due to bad weather

The air search for the missing An-2 airplane in Kamchatka region is temporarily stopped due to unfavorable weather conditions. This was reported on December 21 by the Minister of Emergency Situations of the region Sergey Lebedev on his page in the social network "VKontakte".

"So far, weather conditions do not allow to resume the air search. Very unfavorable weather conditions," Lebedev said.

He specified that weather improvement is expected on December 22. Lebedev also noted that the ground search team is moving along the Yelovka River on snowmobiles.

Earlier in the day it was reported that in Kamchatka rescuers resumed the search for the missing An-2 airplane.

December 20, it was reported that the Mi-8 helicopter flying to search for the missing plane An-2 in Kamchatka returned to the village of Mayskoye due to heavy snow.

The disappearance of theplane An-2 became known on December 19. Minister of Emergency Situations of Kamchatka Territory Sergei Lebedev reported about the beginning of the rescue operation. At the same time, the Eastern Interregional Investigative Directorate for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation noted that in Kamchatka began an investigation into the fact of an aviation accident with the aircraft An-2.

Later Lebedev said that from the aircraft received a signal of emergency landing. In the investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region specified that on board the aircraft were 800 kg of commercial cargo, two crew members and one passenger.

At the same time it was reported that a ground group of rescuers went to the place of the alleged emergency landing of the plane An-2 in Kamchatka.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region also noted that a helicopter with rescuers from the regional search and rescue base flew from the village of Milkovo. In addition, from the city of Yelizovo was planned departure of a helicopter Mi-8 with personnel of the Kamchatka rescue center on board.

Soon Sergei Lebedev said that the rescuers caught a stable radio signal of the beacon in the search area of the missing An-2 airplane in Kamchatka, and the Mi-8 helicopter landed and is waiting out the weather.

Also, a representative of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia), Artem Korenyako, said that the search for the An-2 plane missing in Kamchatka is complicated by difficult weather conditions and terrain features.