The body of the first deceased Mi-8 crew member was raised from the bottom of Lake Onega. The body was found inside the helicopter, says a message on the VKontakte social network.

An RT source spoke about the main reasons for the helicopter crash in Karelia. Earlier it was reported that the Mi- 8 helicopter of the Ministry of Emergency Situations stopped communicating. The department said that the wreckage of the missingMi-8 was found in Lake OneGA near the village of Derevyannoye.