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Date: | Saturday 10 April 2010 |
Time: | |
Type: | Mil Mi-8T |
Owner/operator: | Kamchatskie Avialinii / Kamchatka Airlines |
Registration: | RA-22881 |
MSN: | 98415870 |
Year of manufacture: | 1984 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 18 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Yelizovo, Kamchatka -
Russia
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-Yelizovo Airport (PKC/UHPP) |
Destination airport: | Dukuk Pass |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:A Mi-8 helicopter departed Yelizovo Airport, bound for Dukuk Pass. On board were 18 people, 11 of them were tourists from Germany, one from Belgium, six Russian citizens (the crew and instructors).
The passengers were snowboarders wo were to be dropped off on a mountainside.
An avalanche of several hundred thousand cubic meters dragged the helicopter more than 200 meters down the mountainside. As a result, the Mi-8 was destroyed completely, killing two crew members on board, and eight tourists, who at the time of avalanche were on the mountainside.
Sources:
http://www.europeonline-magazine.eu/14-deutsche-snowboarder-in-russland-verschuettet_60408.html https://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2010/04/10/n_1481405.shtml
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.mchs.gov.ru/emergency/detail.php?ID=31709&]
http://www.forumavia.ru/forum/7/4/7126532668147628759361270878374_1.shtml?topiccount=47
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Apr-2010 01:24 |
Alpine Flight |
Added |
10-Apr-2010 01:47 |
krasatpi |
Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Location, Narrative] |
10-Apr-2010 02:36 |
krasatpi |
Updated [Total fatalities, Source] |
10-Apr-2010 04:49 |
Alpine Flight |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
10-Apr-2010 12:21 |
krasatpi |
Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Source] |
11-Apr-2010 00:28 |
harro |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
11-Apr-2010 01:09 |
krasatpi |
Updated [Registration, Source] |
11-Apr-2010 02:14 |
RobertMB |
Updated [Cn] |