Rescued crew members and passenger of An-2 told how they managed to survive

A passenger and two crew members of the An-2 plane, which was found in Kamchatka, told on December 22 how they managed to survive for more than two days. The video is at the disposal of Izvestia.

According to the men, they had with them small supplies of food, which they managed to stretch until rescue.

They also tried not to leave the aircraft because of the snow and wind, and dug a hole under the wing of the plane to sleep.

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. Rosaviatsia spokesman Artem Korenyako specified that the An-2 with two crew members and a passenger was found near Tundrovaya Mountain. A criminal case on violation of the rules of operation of air transport has been opened.

The disappearance of the An-2 became known on December 19. At the same time in Kamchatka began an investigation into the fact of an aviation accident. In the Department of Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region specified that on board the plane in addition to three people were 800 kg of commercial cargo. Later, the airplane received a signal about the emergency landing, and a ground group of rescuers went to the alleged place of its commission.

The next day, a helicopter with rescuers from the village of Milkovo flew out, and a Mi-8 helicopter with rescuers from the town of Yelizovo was planned. Soon they caught a stable radio signal of the beacon in the area of An-2 search, but the Mi-8 helicopter landed to wait out the weather. The search for An-2 was complicated by weather conditions and terrain peculiarities, and was resumed on December 22 due to weather improvement.