Rescuers keep on searching the third crew member of the crashed in Amur outlet MI-8, informed an Emergency Situations Ministry official.
"Earlier, two dead bodies of crew members have been discovered. The third crew member hasn?t been found yet. He might be drifted with the river current", - said the official.
At the same time, he emphasized, that it is still a question if the lost crew member is dead or alive.
The helicopter MI-8 took off from Nikolaevsk-na-Amure to Bogorodskoe at 7:55 Moscow time. At about 8:00 m.t. the helicopter presumably crashed 20 km to the west from Nikolaevsk-na-Amure.
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