ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 56900
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Date: | 09-JAN-2009 |
Time: | 11:00 UTC |
Type: |  Mil Mi-171C (Mi-8AMT) |
Owner/operator: | Gazpromavia |
Registration: | RA-22463 |
C/n / msn: | ...66433208U |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 11 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Location: | Altai Mountains, Siberia -
Russia
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Agricultural |
Departure airport: | Biysk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The flight was an aerial hunting expedition organized by one of the senior local officials who invited two high-rank Duma members to join the entertainment. Contact with the helicopter was lost at 2 pm local time (8 am GMT) on January 9. 8 of 11 people onboard perished, among them President's envoy in Duma Alexander Kosapkin.
The aircraft collided with the ground while manoeuvring to collect an animal shot from the cabin.
Sources:
1.
https://mak-iac.org/russian/investigations/2009/mi-171.html 2.
http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/35705 3.
http://www.na.se/artikel.asp?intId=1434655&insn=1 (Swedish)
4.
http://www.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=517 5.
https://mak-iac.org/russian/investigations/2009/report_ra-22463.pdf
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Jan-2009 10:22 |
ddk |
Added |
11-Jan-2009 05:01 |
ddk |
Updated |
11-Jan-2009 05:01 |
Alessandro |
Updated |
11-Jan-2009 11:42 |
VAR |
Updated |
12-Jan-2009 02:28 |
harro |
Updated |
12-Jan-2009 11:30 |
harro |
Updated |
31-Oct-2010 10:21 |
krasatpi |
Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Departure airport] |
14-Mar-2011 17:19 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
14-Mar-2011 17:23 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Source] |
21-Sep-2014 14:03 |
Aerossurance |
Updated [Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |