Rescuers found the wreckage of a helicopter which went missing in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, with a regional governor and his top aides on board, local officials in the emergency situations ministry said. There were no survivors among the 16 or 17 passengers and three crew, whose bodies were all still trapped in the wreckage, they said Saturday. The Mi-8 chopper was found in dense vegetation, near the river Apachan, 115 kilometres (70 miles) southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the peninsula's capital, from which it had taken off on Wednesday. Radio contact had been lost less than an hour into its flight bound for the town of Severo-Kurilsk, on one of the northern Kuril islands. It had up to 20 people on board, including Igor Farkhutdinov, governor of the oil-rich Sakhalin region, who had been a key player in attracting foreign investment in the region's oil and gas industry and in overseeing its current economic boom. Along with members of his administration, he had been attending a meeting of administrative officials from nine Russian and 14 Japanese cities belonging to the Mayors Association of the Far East and Siberia that opened on Tuesday at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Around 1,300 rescuers, including local hunters, fishermen and tourists, combed the peninsula's dense forests and forbidding mountains, backed up by 20 aircraft and more than 40 ships and boats, in a bid to locate the missing chopper. **PHOTO CAPTION*** The crash site of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter is seen at Mount Asacha, south west of far eastern city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, August 23, 2003. (Reuters)