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Chechnya: Russian MI-8 crashed flying into a power cable

Grozny, Chechnya - The incident occurred last afternoon killed 15 militaries

Fifteen Russian soldiers were killed yesterday when the military helicopter carrying them went down near Grozny, Capital of Chechnya. Only one person survived the crash caused by hitting a power cable: the 32-seat MI-8 copter was flying Federal Security Service (FSB) officers to the Russian base of Khankala, but the chopper was flying low and didn’t managed to avoid the crash. At the beginning the i...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 116118
Rome, Italy, 03/11/2005 14:42
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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