Mi-28 helicopter collapsed On the afternoon of Friday, May 12, during a training flight in the Dzhankoy region of Crimea, TASS.
“On May 12, 2023, at 15:42 (Moscow time), a Mi-28 helicopter crashed while conducting a planned training flight in the Dzhankoy district of the Republic of Crimea.
The flight was carried out without ammunition. There is no destruction on earth. Both pilots died, ”said the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The ministry added that the primary cause of the accident was equipment failure. To clarify all the causes and circumstances of the accident, a commission from the main command of the Russian Aerospace Forces was sent to the scene of the accident.
Also on Friday, an air defense system exploded in western Crimea and a drone was shot down.
“Air defense forces shot down an enemy UAV in the west of Crimea. There was no loss of life or damage. The situation is under control,” said the president of the republic, Sergei Aksyonov.
About Mi-28
The Mi-28N (“Izdeliye 294”, “Night Hunter”, NATO designation – Havoc-B, “Havok-bi”) is a Russian attack helicopter. It was developed by the designers of the Moscow Helicopter Plant in the 1990s. Mil (now part of the Russian Helicopters holding).
It is a 24-hour modification of the Soviet Mi-28 attack helicopter, created in the 1980s, but never entered service.
According to the Ministry of Defense, modern modifications of the Mi-28 attack helicopter are designed to detect and destroy armored and unarmored vehicles, low-flying targets and enemy infantry.
previous events
Remember, April 26 near Monchegorsk in the Murmansk region fallen MiG-31 fighter. It crashed into the lake, broke the ice, both pilots ejected. In the footage recorded by the local people, it was understood that the plane was engulfed in flames.
The fall of the MiG-31 was the tenth known incident on the aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Defense from the very beginning. Special military operation in Ukraine.
So, on October 17 last year, the front-line fighter-bomber Su-34 fallen To a residential area in Yeysk. After the accident, a fire started, several floors of a nine-story residential building caught fire simultaneously, from the first to the ninth. 16 people were killed and 43 injured.
The Department of Defense later reported that the plane crashed while climbing due to engine fire.
A few days later, on October 23, the Su-30 fighter jet crashed during a test flight and crashed on a two-story wooden house in Irkutsk.
Two pilots were killed, the residents of the house were not injured. After the accident, a fire broke out, about 150 houses were cut off.
The Investigative Committee of Russia named two main versions of what happened: failure of aviation equipment and pilot error.