One person was killed and two others were injured in a helicopter crash, late Thursday evening, near a residential area in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan, a source in the Emergencies ministry's Department of told TASS on Friday.
A private helicopter was en-route from Ufa to the village of Pavlovka and it carried three people on board, a local transport prosecutor’s office announced on its official Telegram Channel.
"A Eurocopter AS350 rotorcraft crash-landed in the Blagoveshchensky district of the republic of Bashkortostan, about four kilometers near a residential area of Karagaikul," the source said. "There were a pilot and two passengers on board of the aircraft."
"According to unverified information, a technical malfunction might have caused the crash-landing of the Eurocopter," a source in the Russian aviation services told TASS .
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