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Three crew members and 16 passengers died when the Russian-made MI-8 helicopter came down on Friday in bad weather.
ADVERTISEMENTA helicopter has crashed in northern Siberia, with the loss of 19 people on board.
Three crew members and 16 passengers died when the Russian-made MI-8 helicopter came down on Friday in bad weather.
Two survivors were injured. A third is unhurt.
Nineteenpeople die in helicoptercrash in northernRussia: Threesurvivorstakento hospitalafterMi-8 carr… https://t.co/8tD6dUnvln
— YohkOrg(@yohk_org) October 22, 2016
The helicopter was carrying employees of a contractor from oil company Rosneft’s Suzun oilfield.
It is part of Russia’s northernmost onshore oil production project.
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