At present three main versions of the air crash are considered: weather conditions, technical helicopter malfunction and pilot error. This was reported in the Far East Investigation Department on Transport of the Investigative Committee of Russia. Criminal case on h. 3 items. 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of safety rules for the movement and operation of air transport"). The Mi-8 airline Vostok, which carried out a training flight, according to the investigation, fell in Khabarovsk on April 11 at about 11:00 local time (04:00 Moscow time). On board was a crew of six people. According to preliminary data, no one survived. At the site of the fall of the helicopter, six bodies of the dead were found, a source in the operational headquarters at the scene.

The wreckage of the helicopter crashed is scattered within a kilometer radius. The place of incident is cordoned off. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations completed the search operations at the site of the Mi-8 crash at 13:15 local time (06:15 Moscow time). Now an investigation is underway. A kilometer from the place of the fall of the Mi-8 are the nearest objects of the city infrastructure of Khabarovsk, said the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Khabarovsk. The helicopter collapsed "about a kilometer from the street of Karl Marx - on a wasteland in a ravine. The nearest building is a mobile communications tower, "he said.. Almost 20 policemen and about 10 patrol crews follow the order. According to the representative of the regional government, the head of the Khabarovsk Territory Vyacheslav Shport commissioned to provide assistance to the families of those killed in the crash of the helicopter. In the near future, the government of the region will host a meeting of the Committee for Emergency Situations.