In the Vologda region they offered assistance in searching for those missing in the Mi-8 crash. An RT source said that divers will soon begin searching for the bodies of the dead.

Later, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that the wreckage of the missingMi-8 was found in Lake Onega near the village of Derevyannoye. Earlier it was reported that the helicopter of the Ministry of emergency Situations stopped communicating in Karelia. It is believed that all the crew members on board were killed.