, July 25/Radio Sputnik. The tour group spoke about the wreckage of an airplane found on the mountainside in the Okinsky region of Buryatia, presumably it was An-2 that disappeared a year ago.
A board with rescuers from Irkutsk went to the place. However, the search is complicated due to the bad weather.
“The fog, as soon as the weather permits, the rescuers will go to the scene and clear up the plane from last year or 76 years (1976 – ed.)”, – told RIA Novosti an employee of the press service of the Republican Agency for Emergencies.
An-2 is known to take off from Kyren village, Tounkinsky district in Buryatia and disappeared on July 19, 2020. He had six people on board – two crew members and four crew members. other Phoenix aircraft crew. They wanted to participate in the transformation of forests. A month after the plane went missing, helicopters and planes flew 129 times looking for it, 11 times the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation searched for a plane using drones, about 30,000 square meters were observed. The search for An-2 continued until the end of August.
In connection with the incident, the ICR opened criminal proceedings for violation of road safety rules and the operation of air transport.
Earlier, Sputnik radio reported that Russian Defense Ministry planes flew to Cuba with humanitarian aid.
