An-2 airplane missing in Kamchatka has been found

The previously missing An-2 airplane has been found in Kamchatka, the people are alive. This was reported on December 22 by the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Kamchatka region Sergei Lebedev.

"The airplane was found, people are alive. What is the exact condition, I can not say. Now we will evacuate," he said on his page in the social network "VKontakte".

Lebedev specified that the airplane was found from the air by representatives of the regional search and rescue base (RRSB), despite the difficult weather conditions.

The disappearance of the An-2 plane 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 (Rosaviation) Artem Korenyako said that the search for the plane An-2, which disappeared in Kamchatka, is complicated by difficult weather conditions, as well as the peculiarities of the terrain.

On December 22, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region reported about the resumption of the search for the missing An-2 aircraft due to improved weather conditions.