E toʻaono tagata na maliliu i le osofaʻiga o le Mil Mi-8 i le teritori o Khabarovsk i le itu i sasae o Lusia, na taʻu atu ai e le pulega o vaalele a Rusia, Rosaviatsiya, i le ofisa faasalalau o tala i le TASS i le Aso Toonaʻi.
O le helikopa o le Vostok Aviation Company na faia se vaalele i le va o nofoaga e lua. I luga o le vaʻaia e toʻatolu sui o le auvaa ma 13 pasese.
O le helikopa na tatau ona taunuʻu i le taunuʻuga mulimuli i le 10:20 Moscow taimi, ae o le auvaa e leʻi fesoʻotaʻi i le taimi saʻo. Ina ua maeʻa lena, e lua Mi-8 helikopters ma se vaalele Antonov-26 amata amata saili mo le leiloa helikopa.
"Mulimuli ane, na mafai e le kapeteni ona faafesootaʻi le kamupani ma lipotia le helikopa na paʻu le tolu kilomita i le mea na taunuu i ai ma goto," o le tala lea, ma faaopoopo i faamatalaga muamua o sui e toatolu o le auvaa ma le fitu pasese na sao mai le faalavelave, ma ono pasese na maliliu .
Na taʻua e le pulega, e leʻi mafai lava e le au laveaʻi ona oʻo atu i le mea na paʻu ai, ona o le puao mamafa. O loʻo faʻafesoʻotaʻi e le pulega o le pulega le au laveaʻi i le sami ina ia iai ni vaa o le sami e auai i le galuega laveaʻi.
OA MEA E AVEA MAI LENEI TUSI:
- “Later on, the captain managed to communicate the company and reported the helicopter crashed three kilometres to the destination and sunk,”.
- Six people died in a crash of a Mil Mi-8 in the Khabarovsk territory in Russia's far east, the Russian aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, told TASS news agency on Saturday.
- The authority said rescuers still could not get to the site of the crash due to a heavy fog.
