ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 78764
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| Date: | 24-JUN-1987 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Mil Mi-26 |
| Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | 51 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 18 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Kutaisi -
 Georgia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Micha-Tskhakaya |
| Vaziani | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
20 minutes after takeoff during a flight at an altitude of 3,300 m bearing tail rotor drive shaft collapsed. The helicopter went into uncontrollable decline. Navigator, flight engineer and flight technician bailed out with parachutes, but the first two were killed, caught in the rotating screw. At the site of the crash killed one child, second child received severe burns.
Sources:
http://war.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=58
Soviet Transports
http://aviadejavu.ru/Images6/AV/AV00-6/13-3.jpg (place of crash)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Oct-2010 06:44 | krasatpi | Added |
| 17-Dec-2010 02:43 | TB | Updated [Operator] |
| 17-Dec-2010 05:26 | TB | Updated [Source] |
| 25-Dec-2010 02:38 | krasatpi | Updated [[Source]] |
| 16-May-2011 13:37 | krasatpi | Updated [Source] |
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