24-Mar-15 Mil Mi-2 Yelizovo, Russia (2F)
Two deaths reported – helicopter on a post maintenance test flight after engine was replaced. Registration variously quoted as RF-01186 or RF-01168
24-Mar-15
Two deaths reported – helicopter on a post maintenance test flight after engine was replaced. Registration variously quoted as RF-01186 or RF-01168
24-Mar-15
Emergency landing, breaking the tail boom. No injuries to three on board.
26-Dec-14
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry has confirmed the death of two persons in the crash of a private Mi-2 helicopter in Yamal, northwest Siberia. Heliccopter crashed into a lake and only the tail visible above the water
02-Nov-14
crashed due to wiring problem and burnt out completely. 2 crew members and 7 passengers managed to escape.
13-Aug-14
Tail boom (or rotor?) hit wires on take-off, causing crash. Tail some metres from rest of wreckage, but unclear if that was contributory or result of accident. Aircraft had been leased by Lukoil and had just dropped off oil workers. Pilot Nicholas Vandakurov killed.
10-Jul-14
Both pilots seriously injured in low level accident involving powerlines during agricultural operations – named as Anatoly Kurilov and Alexander Fumchenko
21-Jun-14
Privately owned Mi-2 fell onto its side in accident in open field. Main blades contacted tail boom. 7 POB, of which five to hospital. Registration confirmed by this tweet
Source: SP-SFC, 01-May-14
Rotor blades contacted building on take-off, causing helicopter to crash. Post accident fire. Pilot escaped unharmed
05-Feb-14
Crashed and consumed by fire, killing all three on board. Photos of wreckage show it half buried, implying significant vertical speed at impact.
09-Sep-13
Helicopter crashed into field during agricultural operations
21-May-13
Helicopter crashed while carrying out agricultural work. No further details at this time. Pilot fatally injured
10-Aug-12
Mi-2 owned by Congo Interior Ministry (referred to in one report as a “police helicopter”) crashed killing Russian citizen, SP Korostel, and Belarusian citizen, MF Cherenkov. Earlier reports of 2 Ukrainians being killed were later dismissed
16-Jul-12
Two people hijacked the helicopter, forced the pilot to fly to a prison at gunpoint, and then hovered as a rope ladder was dropped town for prisoner Alexei Shestakov to escape. Prison guards shot at the helicopter in an attempt to force it to land. The aircraft was later found abandoned on the edge of… Read more »
22-Mar-12
Impacted ground in fog while on low level pipeline patrol. 2POB, 1 fatal
30-Nov-11
The helicopter had flown only about 300 metres after takeoff when it crashed, killing the sole occupant pilot
22-Jun-11
Take-off accident, helicopter ended up on its side
18-Jun-11
A Mi-2 helicopter crashed in the Stavropol Territory when it supposedly performed farm work. The pilot died, a source at the Emergencies Ministry’s regional centre said. The accident occurred in the village of Yasny at about 23:00 on Friday.
28-May-11
Crashed and burst into flames shortly after take-off at 1900hrs – after emergency landing earlier in the day (see separate incident page here) and subsequent repairs. Pilot and passenger killed.
05-Feb-11
Emergency landing due to engine problems. Later repaired but helicopter crashed fatally on subsequent take-off (see separate incident page here)
05-Feb-11
Fourth digit of registration is not confirmed (see photos at URL2). Options are 20558, 20568, 20588 or 20598
12-Jun-10
8-Jul-09 Mil Mi-2 Lesnichenko, 35 km from Smolensk, Russia
08-Jul-09
29-Apr-09 N2560Q Mil Mi-2 Harlingen, US-Texas
29-Apr-09
22-Apr-09 RA-23302 Mil Mi-2 15 km from Luginetskogo gas field, Russia
22-Apr-09
17-Feb-09 SP-ZXC Mil Mi-2 Budziszow, Poland
17-Feb-09
12-Jan-09 RA-20981 Mil Mi-2 near Nefteyugansk, Tyumen Oblast, Russia
12-Jan-09