“I couldn’t swim on the stomach and realized that in these conditions I wouldn’t be able to hang in much longer. My sneakers were dragging me down, I barely managed to take them off,” Strelkin said. 'The next thing I knew I was in the lake and the water was burning my eyes.
'The skids hit the water and we just crashed and smashed into pieces,'' Herbertson said. A flock of flamingos were flying over the lake. The picture was taken from a helicopter over lake natron. He said the rescue boats arrived just in time after he swam up to the lake surface. In an instant, the craft plunged nose-first into the shallow lake, breaking apart and sending the crew into the hot, caustic water. Photo and caption by Marc Hornig / National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest. The fog was low,” one of the survivors, Viktor Strelkin, said in a video interview released by the government of Kamchatka. Helicopters in TANZANIA Tanzanian Peoples Defence Force Air Wing fleet and news. Rangers in the nature reserve reported hearing the helicopter approaching the lake and then the sound of it hitting the surface and said they immediately dispatched two boats to the crash site. Two of the survivors were badly injured and have been taken to the intensive care unit at a local hospital, according to the Interfax news agency. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said 13 tourists and three crew members were aboard the helicopter when it crashed, state news agency RIA Novosti said. The water temperature in the lake was 5-6 degrees Celsius (41-42.8 F), and the survivors had to swim about 9 meters (29.5 feet) up to the surface from the sinking helicopter, spokespeople for the reserve said. The Mi-8 helicopter sank in Kurile Lake, which was formed in a volcano caldera and crater and is located in the Kronotsky nature reserve. At least eight others reportedly survived. MOSCOW (AP) - A helicopter carrying tourists plunged into a deep volcanic crater lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East early Thursday, and rescue workers were searching in the lake for up to eight people missing, officials said. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The New York State Police responded to the scene and an investigation by the The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board is ongoing.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. He White Lake Fire Company and the Kauneonga Lake Fire Department assisted with UTVs in order to reach the remote crash site and transport the injured to a place where two medevac helicopters were standing by. Cameraman Ben Herbertson recalls that the hot, salty water was burning his eyes. The entire craft plunged into the corrosive water and caught fire. But the helicopter’s landing skid hit the lake’s surface. Its surface was clear and beautiful that morning. “We were on the scene in a matter of minutes but the challenge was getting to the actual helicopter,” Sherwood said. In 2007, a documentary film crew was flying over Lake Natron. The Swan Lake Fire Department was among the first on the scene shortly after 9 a.m. KEY POINTS: SYDNEY - Two Australian men have survived a helicopter crash in remote Tanzania after it nose-dived into an alkaline lake and exploded. “I live right there so I hear them flying every day,” said Swan Lake Fire Chief Don Sherwood. The helicopter belonged to Haverfield Aviation, a company based out of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania that provides helicopter power line inspection as well as maintenance, repairs, upgrades, replacement and construction support services to the North American electric utility industry. Those two individuals were flown to Westchester Medical Center in serious condition, although it was reported that both were conscious and alert. SWAN LAKE - Multiple fire departments, medical and law enforcement agencies responded to a wooded area off Stanton Corner Road in Swan Lake on Friday following reports of a helicopter crash.Ī McDonnell Douglas 500 helicopter was inspecting the Marcy South powerlines that run through the Swan Lake Fire District between Bushville Swan Lake Road and Stanton Corner Road when it crashed with two people onboard.
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