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The Mi-8 helicopter poured sand into the exposed core of reactor 4 at Chernobyl, but radiation glow from the sun's rays blinded the pilot's vision making the crane cables difficult to see, the helicopter's blades hit the cables, and then crashed. Outcome: 4 Deaths form the Cup-2: Deaths: 4 Deaths form the Cup-2 crew of Mi-8 Incident crash. 1.
On 28 September 2024, a Mil Mi-8 helicopter operating a charter flight to transport oil workers for the company Mari Petroleum, crashed near the Shiwa oil field, in Waziristan, north-western Pakistan. [2] According to a security official, there were 11 local passengers and 3 Russian crew on board. Three passengers and three crew members were ...
On 31 August 2024, a Mil Mi-8 helicopter operating a scheduled charter flight crashed in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, killing all 22 people on board. The aircraft, which was operated by Vityaz-Aero on a sightseeing tour over the Vachkazhets volcano, crashed in poor weather shortly after take-off.
2010 Tajik National Guard Mi-8 crash; 2022 Gudauri helicopter crash; A. 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown; ... 2003 Polish Air Force Mil Mi-8 crash; S.
The helicopter took off at 10:45 NPT on 23 September 2006. Shortly afterwards, the helicopter was declared missing. Two days later, the wreckage of the helicopter was found south-west of Ghunsa. [4] Bad weather was assumed to have caused the crash at the beginning. [5]
Ukraine’s military has released a video of the burning wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter on the war’s southern frontline, saying the aircraft was shot down by paratroopers. “The Russian ...
On November 20, 1991, an Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 military helicopter, carrying a peacekeeping mission team consisting of 13 Azerbaijani government officials, two Russian and one Kazakhstani Ministry of Internal Affairs officials, three Azerbaijani journalists and three helicopter crew was shot down amidst heavy fighting near the village of Berdashen, also known as Karakend, in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The 2001 Grozny Mil Mi-8 crash in Chechnya killed 13 Russian military personnel, mostly senior military officers including two generals.. On September 17, 2001, a surface-to-air missile fired by a special Chechen group targeting Russian commanders downed a VIP Mil Mi-8 helicopter over Grozny, killing Major-General Anatoly Pozdnyakov, member of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces ...