Russian rescuers have located the wreckage of a Mi-8T transport helicopter that vanished two days earlier during a flight from Okhotsk to Magadan in the country’s Far East, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. The aircraft was found destroyed on a mountainside near Cape Gadikan in Khabarovsk Krai, about 130 kilometres (81 miles) northeast of Okhotsk. All five people on board—three crew members and two technicians—were killed, officials confirmed. The helicopter, operated by the Magadan-based carrier Vzlyot, disappeared on 14 July without issuing a distress call and its emergency locator beacon failed to activate. Search teams using another Mi-8 and an An-26 aircraft combed the remote, rugged terrain before spotting debris on 16 July that showed signs of fire damage. Russia’s civil-aviation regulator Rosaviatsia and the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) have opened an investigation into the crash, while the transport prosecutor’s office is inspecting Vzlyot for possible safety violations. The accident adds to a series of recent fatal incidents involving the Soviet-designed Mi-8, one of the most widely used helicopters in Russia’s civilian and military fleets.