A Mi-8 helicopter of the Russian army crashed in the Moscow region on Tuesday. According to the Russian authorities, all the crew perished in the accident.
A Mi-8 helicopter of the Russian army crashed in the Moscow region, causing the death of the crew, announced this Tuesday by the ministry of Defence is refusing to say how many people were on board. “The crew has died of wounds received during the emergency landing” of the device, said the ministry.
“A technical default”
According to the department, the crash occurred around 20 hours to 20 kilometers from the city of Klin, during a training flight. “According to preliminary information, the cause of the disaster could be a technical fault,” said the ministry, noting that the device was not armed.
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multi-purpose Helicopter, the Mi-8 Russian is used as much for military purposes as for civil transportation. The models of the larger can carry up to 32 people. In August 2018, 15 people working on a station oil and 3 crew members were killed in the crash of a Mi-8 in the north of Siberia, after a collision with another helicopter.
The accidents of helicopters or small planes are especially common in Siberia and in the Russian Far East, where they are a means of transport common to cover the enormous distances in these sparsely populated regions.
