Drunk joyriders steal Antonov An-2: "crew" + 7 pax still missing, believed killed…

Some film footage of the crash site now at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22423413

Great news, was waiting for someone to solve this mystery! Thanks for the update.

MOSCOW | Sun May 5, 2013 1:43pm BST

The wreckage of a Russian light aircraft that disappeared last June with 13 people on board has been discovered by hunters just a few kilometres from the plane’s takeoff strip near the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.

…http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/05/05/uk-russia-plane-idUKBRE94405E20130505 has more…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175459/AN-2-biplane-missing-Mystery-Russian-plane-carrying-13-people-vanished-trace-month-ago.html

Last week, the families of four of the missing people wrote to Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, asking him to step up the search effort.

The chances of this incident turning out well in the end are getting slimmer and slimmer… 🙁

Among the missing men are the Chief of Serov city police, three police inspectors, the guard of the airport, a private company guard, a pensionist, a young unemployed guy and a local mobile shop owner.

The questions that come from that alone are staggering – were the chief of police and the police inspectors drunk as well? Were they kidnapped? If so, how the hell did two drunks kidnap 4 police officers and a private guard?!

Only in Russia I guess.

we are still staked down at popham since last weekend!

Thanks for the update, keep on with the search and ‘news’! 😀

Is the story over now? No, not really, another missing An-2 and a Mil Mi-8 helicopter turned up during the operation. 😮

The “Booze Flight” is still very actively being searched for though according to today’s
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/in-search-for-missing-plane-remains-of-other-aircraft-found/461258.html

“The plane may have gone to a sauna in a neighbouring district.” Eight days ago?

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=7e45b583-5f79-4f5d-902b-1869ece45b27

Mountains, forests and deep lakes, might never be found. 🙁

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20120618/174101138.html

Search Stepped up for Urals Joyride Aircraft

14:31 18/06/2012YEKATERINBURG, June 18 (RIA Novosti)

Tags: An-2, Rosaviatsia, Serov, Russia

More than 1,000 people have been involved in the massive search operation for a light plane hijacked by a party of revellers from an airfield in the Urals last week, emergency officials said on Monday.

No news is “bad news” in this case… 🙁

Hmm. That sounds bad. I wonder how this will pan out.