“November 30, at about 09:30 Moscow time, in the vicinity of the village of Abrau-Durso, the Robinson helicopter crashed. The circumstances of the incident are being clarified. The investigators’s departure to the scene was organized, a procedural check is being conducted, ”TASS quoted the representative of the agency as saying.

The representative of the company "Abrau-Durso" said that the helicopter belonged to the enterprise, there was only a pilot on board.

Earlier, the mayor of Novorossiysk Igor Dyachenko reported a helicopter crash in the region of Abrau-Durso.

The media reported that the helicopter “suddenly lost control, crashed and caught fire”, as a result of which the pilot died.

Later, the authorities of Novorossiysk confirmed the death of the pilot in a helicopter crash.