Helicopter crashed killing all four occupants shortly after take off from Lensk Airport. Operator UTair named the victims as pilot Gordeychuk Vasily, mechanic Druzenko Ivan and passengers Verezhak Yaroslav and Arthur Popov. Unclear how relevant this is, but UTair have also stopped using Lensk for refuelling as a result of the accident.
- Date
- July 4, 2012
- Reg
- RA-04097
- Make
- Eurocopter
- Model
- AS350
- MSN
- 3957
- Location
- 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from Lensk Airport, Yakutia region
- Country
- Russia
- CivilMilitary
- Civil
- Fatal
- 4
- Operator
- UTair
- Link 1
- http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.utair.ru%2Fnews%2F5086747.html
- Link 2
- http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120704/174401579.html
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