A tourist hovercraft overturns on Siberia’s Lake Baikal, killing five people, according to multiple reports. Emergency services sources say the vehicle likely carries more passengers than it is designed to hold, with the hovercraft believed to be heavily overloaded at the time of the accident. The reports describe the capsizing as sudden, with no warning mentioned, and note that authorities are investigating the incident. While the accounts focus on the possibility of an overload as a key factor, they also indicate that further details are still being examined by Russian authorities, including the circumstances leading up to the crash and the exact number of passengers aboard. The incident highlights the risks associated with tourist transport on large bodies of water, particularly in harsh weather conditions, though the specific weather at the time is not consistently detailed across the sources. The Moscow Times and Fox News both report five fatalities and frame the investigation around the hovercraft’s capacity and passenger load.