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.

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

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]