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Maxim Kuzminov (19 June 1995 – February 2024), born in Arsenyev, [6] was a graduate of the Syzran Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots. [7] During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he served in the Russian Armed Forces as a pilot-navigator in the 319th Separate Helicopter Regiment [], part of the 11th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Eastern Military District.
A Russian pilot who dramatically defected to Ukraine by flying his helicopter across the border is dead, ... The pair were killed while trying to escape after they realized they had landed in ...
An Mi-8 was shot down by Russian forces in Kharkiv. The helicopter was carrying S-8 unguided rockets. The pilots survived, as the helicopter was hit at low altitude. [317] [318] 31 October Mil Mi-8 An Mil Mi-8, call sign 843, crashed in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast. [319] 11 November Mil Mi-8
Two Army pilots, Major Al-Tamash and Major Faisal, are also killed. The Polish and Dutch ambassadors are injured. [7] 4 August – A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in northwestern Colombia, killing 16 of the 18 people on board
Of the 19 passengers, 18 were Russian citizens and 1 was a Kazakh citizen. [7]: 6 In command was 38-year-old Captain Denis Bleshchik, who had been flying helicopters for 12 years, [3] [9] [2] with more than 5728 hours of flying experience on the Mil Mi-8.
Some Russian Telegram channels monitoring Russia's military activity, including the blog Rybar with more than a million subscribers, reported on Saturday that 13 Russian pilots were killed during ...
The five Russian military crew members and three Turkish forest inspectors were killed. [112] 17 August – The only flying prototype Il-112V suffered a fire in the right engine and crashed near Kubinka Air base. All three crew on board were killed, including test-pilot Nikolai Kuimov, who was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation ...
The navigator Konstantin Murakhtin was rescued, but the pilot Oleg Peshkov was shot and killed by Syrian rebel ground fire while descending by parachute. [10] A Russian marine from the search and rescue team launched to retrieve the two airmen was also killed when a rescue helicopter was targeted by the rebels. [10] [11]