A criminal case has been opened over the incident with the An-2 airplane in Kamchatka

A criminal case has been initiated over the incident with the An-2 airplane in Kamchatka. This was reported on December 22 in the Eastern Interregional Investigative Department on transport of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

"Investigators of the Kamchatka investigative department on transport of the Eastern Interregional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia initiated a criminal case on indications of a crime under Art. 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of the rules of safety of movement and operation of air transport")", - stated in the message in the Telegram-channel.

It is specified that investigators are carrying out a set of investigative actions aimed at establishing the circumstances of the incident.

Earlier in the day, the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Kamchatka region Sergei Lebedev said that the previously missing An-2 airplane was found in Kamchatka. He specified that people were evacuated by Mi-8 helicopter to Milkovo. The spokesman of the Federal Air Transport Agency (FAA) Artem Korenyako specified that the Mi-8 helicopter found the An-2 airplane with two crew members and a passenger in the area of Tundrovaya Mountain.

The disappearance of theAn-2 airplane became known on December 19. 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. 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.

On the same day to the place of the alleged emergency landing of the plane An-2 in Kamchatka went to the ground group of rescuers.

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, an Mi-8 helicopter with personnel from the Kamchatka Rescue Center on board was planned to depart from the town of Yelizovo.

Soon Lebedev said that the rescuers caught a stable radio signal of a beacon in the search area for the missing An-2 airplane in Kamchatka, and the Mi-8 helicopter landed and is waiting out the weather.Also, Rosaviatsia representative Artem Korenyako noted that the search for the An-2 airplane, missing in Kamchatka, is complicated by difficult weather conditions, as well as terrain features. On December 22, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region reported about the resumption of the search in connection with the improvement of weather conditions.