Mos
News
Friday, December 1, 2006
An unidentified flying object has crashed in Krasnoyarsk Region,
Siberia, causing a forest fire, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported
on Friday.
The crash took place in the taiga between the towns of Yeniseisk
and Lesosibirsk, the agency said quoting the local Interior Ministry
directorate. The crash was reported by local villagers and traces
of forest fire can be seen on the site. Air traffic officials
said that no aircraft were scheduled to fly in the region at the
time of the crash and no air vessels were missing.
A group formed of police investigators, representatives of the
Transport Prosecutors Service and representatives of the aircraft
safety watchdog Rosavianadzor has started to the site of the crash
from Krasnoyarsk.
Local Emergencies Directorate has sent a helicopter to the site.
