Helicopter with 9 persons and 2 tons of explosive
Tags: Angara Airlines, Civil, Fatal, Mi-8, Mil, Russia, Safety
Rolled over onto its side on landing. The helicopter carried three crewmembers and 3.2 tonnes of building materials.
Tags: Civil, Kamchatka Airlines, Mi-8, Mil, Russia, Safety
Three killed out of four on board a Russian Border Guard Mi-8 which crashed in poor visibility. A criminal investigation has been opened.
Tags: Fatal, Mi-8, Mil, Military, Russia, Russian Air Force, Safety
Crashed on take off for post-maintenance test flight
Tags: Mi-8, Mil, Military, Russia, Russian Air Force, Safety
Emergency landing after helicopter damaged in bird strike
Tags: Mexican Federal Police, Mi-8, Mil, Military, Russia, Safety
Turned over onto its side when landing. Beyond that, reports differ - in particular the company press release and the initial investigation reports and local press. Some say conditions were gusty, others say low visibility - one report has photo of wreckage with snow falling. Some say 17 passengers and 3 crew - of which 4 minor injuries only. Others say 19+3 with 6 seriously injured.
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia, Safety, UTair
Mountainous region, poor weather, 4 killed
Tags: Fatal, Mi-24, Mil, Russia, Russian Air Force, Safety
Crashed from a low hover, moderate damage, no injuries
Tags: Mi-28, Mil, Military, Russia, Russian Air Force, Safety
Helicopter crashed while carrying out agricultural work. No further details at this time. Pilot fatally injured
Tags: Agricultural, Civil, Fatal, Mi-2, Mil, Russia, Safety
Damaged in emergency landing. No injuries to 4 POB
Tags: Baikal Aviation Club, Civil, R44, Robinson, Russia, Safety
Badly damaged in landing in swampy area short of intended helipad landing. Three occupants injured of the 22 on board. Helicopter with 3 crew was transporting 19 oil workers to a remote field location
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia, Safety, Tomskavia
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.
Tags: AS350, Civil, Eurocopter, Fatal, Russia, Safety, UTair
"helicopter made a crash landing". No injuries
Tags: Civil, R44, Robinson, Russia, Safety, Ufa Airlines
Crash landed on a road during a training flight. 3 POB to hospital but not seriously injured.
Tags: Mi-8, Mil, Military, Russia, Russian Air Force, Safety
Emergency landing in fog, killing sole occupant pilot Valeri Maiorov
Tags: Ak Bars Aero, B407, Bell, Civil, Fatal, Russia, Safety
Crashed on frozen lake, injuring all four occupants - including the CEO of Bank St Petersburg Alexander Saveliev and his companion Olga Lazareva. Pilot elected to make emergency landing on encountering a sudden blizzard but the landing was too hard and the helicopter broke up on impact. see also statement on Bank St Petersburg website
Tags: AgustaWestland, AW119, Baltic Airlines, Civil, Russia, Safety
Helicopter struck wires and crashed into the icy waters of the River Volga, killing the pilot. The helicopter was inverted and half under the ice with the pilot (named as Igor Sevbo) trapped inside. Helicopter lifted out by Mil Mi-8 airlift
Tags: B407, Bell, Civil, Fatal, Russia, Safety
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 Vologda. The hijackers were named here as Tatyana Vazhalina, 35, and Alexander Rusakov, 36
Tags: Civil, Mi-2, Mil, Russia, Safety
Crashed on training flight
Tags: Fatal, Ka52, Kamov, Military, Russia, Russian Air Force, Safety
Helicopter destroyed in hangar fire along with two An-2 fixed wing aircraft. Preliminary cause given centred on welding work being done in the hangar at the time. One possible candidate for this helicopter is RA-24234 (98730691) but that is not confirmed
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia, Safety, Tuva Avia
Engine allowed to over-speed causing turbine blades to fail
Tags: AS350, Civil, Eurocopter, Russia, Safety
Sole occupant pilot Yevgeniy Kurbatov killed. High energy impact with terrain, helicopter broken in many parts, but no sign of post crash fire. Reported as low time pilot with only 20 hours experience, and flying at night. Helicopter was found on 26th November by a volunteer search team Liza Alert the day after the state authorities officially ended the active phase of their search.
Tags: Civil, Fatal, R44, Robinson, Russia
Emergency landing
Tags: Mi-26, Mil, Military, Russia, Russian Air Force
Mi-8 with 25 POB has made an emergency landing in Yamal, the Emergency Situations Ministry’s Main…
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
4POB at a flying club event. Journalists on board filmed the descent as it apparently descended tail first and tail-low to the ground. Rolled over onto port side. Badly damaged. All persons survived, some with injuries.
Tags: Aerosouz, Civil, R44, Robinson, Russia
One report says 10 on board, 6 to hospital. A second report says 13 to hospital. Linked to event for launch of a cable car construction project.
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
Reported as a rough landing on a routine training flight - and resulted in Mi-24 fleet being suspended
Tags: Fatal, Mi-24, Mil, Military, Russia, Russian Air Force
Quote - The Mi-8 helicopter owned by a local air carrier crashed while landing because of engine failure. 5 POB, three crew and two passengers. Caught fire on landing, while on a radio navigation aids inspection flight. Three fatalities
Tags: Chukotavia, Fatal, Mi-8, Mil, Military, Russia
Transmission caught fire during landing phase, substantially damaging the helicopter. All occupants safe.
Tags: Bilibinoavia, Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
A woman passenger broke her arm but no other injuries were reported. The crash took place earlier in the day 180 kilometers from the republic's capital Syktyvkar when the helicopter landed on rough terrain, falling on one side. There were three crewmembers and between six and 16 passengers on board, according to different sources.
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
Collided with the Yenisei River, near Istok, Krasnoyarsk Region, Russia, during a repositioning flight at night. IMC prevailed, and no flight plan was filed. The pilot is missing and presumed fatally injured. The helicopter sustained substantial damage. The flight originated from a landing strip near Severnaya, Krasnoyarsk Region
Tags: Civil, Fatal, R44, Robinson, Russia
The helicopter with 13 passengers and 3 crew members flew to 7.23 Moscow time from Ust-Kut on one of the drilling stations. At 2.5 kilometers from the destination helicopter made an emergency landing. According to preliminary information, there is no dead (per operator UTair - some press reports quote 2 dead)
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia, UTair
Port side engine failure 20 minutes out. Returned to airport on good engine and landed OK
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
Precautionary landing due to fuel leak
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
5POB. Made emergency landing in wooded area after suspected engine fire which turned out to be incorrect
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
Crashed on landing at 3500m altitude in poor visibility on tourish trip. Rescue helicopter Ka27 then crashed too. Second rescue helicopter sent
Tags: Civil, R44, Robinson, Russia
Crashed on mission to rescue the occupants of crashed Robinson R44 helicopter RA-04331
Tags: EMERCOM, Ka27, Kamov, Military, Russia
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.
Tags: Civil, Fatal, Mi-2, Mil, Russia
Crashed and burnt out. Both occupants injured. One report states it did not have an airworthiness certificate, and the pilot was not approved on type.
Tags: Civil, Ka26, Kamov, Russia
A Mil Mi-28 Night Hunter attack helicopter made a rough emergency landing in the Budyonnovsk district in Russia’s southern Stavropol territory on Tuesday, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman… Pilot died later same day in hospital
Tags: Fatal, Mi-28, Mil, Military, Russia, Russian Army
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.
Tags: Civil, Fatal, Mi-2, Mil, ROSTO, Russia
Emergency landing due to engine problems. Later repaired but helicopter crashed fatally on subsequent take-off (see separate incident page here)
Tags: Civil, Mi-2, Mil, ROSTO, Russia
Crashed from hovering at 5m, helicopter ended up on its side. Three occupants, one of which was hospitalized
Tags: Mi-8, Mil, Military, Russia, Russian Air Force
There were 15 passengers and three crewmembers aboard the helicopter. "The passengers received injuries of various degree of gravity while the crew commander was killed,"
Tags: Civil, Fatal, Mi-8, Mil, Russia, Yamal Air Company
"A Mil Mi-8 helicopter of the Federal Security Service, which crashed in bad weather in Sakhalin on Tuesday, has been found burning.". The deceased were all Majors - Anatoly Kozlov, Artem Trushko, Alexander Sleptsov, and Mykola Dudrov
Tags: Civil, Fatal, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
The reason for the forced landing was the increase of pressure in the oil system gearbox rotary-wing aircraft.
Tags: Civil, Kamchatka Airlines, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
Emergency landing shortly after taking off from Marinovka en route for Saratov
Tags: Civil, Mi-8, Mil, Russia
The R44 suffered a tail rotor birdstrike 33ft above the ground, vibrated and lost power. The machine landed heavily on boulder-covered uneven terrain and tipped over, tearing off the tail rotor boom and smashing the main rotor.
Tags: Civil, R44, Robinson, Russia
Helicopter was damaged during ground transportation at night - incident timed at 23:40 local
Tags: Mi-24, Mil, Military, Russia
Fourth digit of registration is not confirmed (see photos at URL2). Options are 20558, 20568, 20588 or 20598
Tags: Civil, Mi-2, Mil, Russia
