Moscow: A Mi-8 helicopter carrying three crew members and 13 tourists crashed in Russia's Kamchatka Terrain, leaving eight people feared dead and two others in serious condition, rescuers and local officials said.

The Mi-8 helicopter carrying sixteen people came down in a nature reserve on the mountainous Kamchatka peninsula, the officials said. "Eight people were rescued, two of them are in serious condition," senior Kamchatka regional government official Alexander Zabolichenko said in a statement

The Russian Emergencies Ministry a statement on the matter reads:  "At 00:50 on August 12, 2021 (2150 GMT on Wednesday), information was received about the crash landing of a Mi-8 helicopter of the Vityaz-Aero airline in the area of the Kuril Lake of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve." Kamchatka's Governor Vladimir Solodov had departed for the crash site, accompanied by medics and emergencies service staffers, Sputnik reported.

Russia has historically had a poor reputation for air safety but has significantly improved its record since the 2000s. Russia’s major airlines have shifted from aging Soviet aircraft to more modern planes.  Earlier, In May 2019, an Aeroflot flight caught fire while making an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 people.

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