Lost Russian fire-fighting aircraft found in Irkutsk

By Euronews

Published on 03/07/2016 - 21:41

Russian authorities have located the wreckage of a plane that crashed last week in the country’s Irkutsk region.

Russian authorities have located the wreckage of a plane that crashed last week in the country’s Irkutsk region.

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The aircraft – with a crew of 10 – disappeared on Friday while on a mission to fight forest fires in the the Bayandayevsky district near Lake Baikal.

Investigators say the black boxes have been located along with human remains.

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