ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 78584
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| Date: | Wednesday 20 August 2003 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Mil Mi-8T |
| Owner/operator: | Khalaktyrka |
| Registration: | RA-25194 |
| MSN: | 99047315 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 20 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Opala hill district, 108 km SW of Yelizovo -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy |
| Severo-Kurilsk | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Pilot error. In carrying out the flight in mountainous terrain in low visibility conditions the crew tried to avoid a collision with a timber and harsh actions created the conditions for the control stick, resulting in main rotor blade strike on the tail boom and its collapse. The helicopter lost control and collided with the earth.
In the crash killed the governor of the Sakhalin region I.P. Farkhutdinov
Sources:
1. http://www.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=9
2. http://www.scramble.nl/soviet-database?view=default
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Oct-2010 03:07 | krasatpi | Added |
| 15-Mar-2011 16:23 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
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