Near the town of Lytkarino near Moscow on Wednesday evening. Experts talk about the two most likely of them - pilot error and failure of one of the two engines.
The version about the failure of one of the two engines was put forward by a source in aviation circles. According to him, if one of the engines on the Mi-8 fails, its functions are successfully performed by the second. “However, at the moment of such a failure, the helicopter could perform some kind of maneuver, a turn with a roll, for example, and one engine simply could not cope with the load, the machine rolled onto its side and crashed,” he explained.
According to another version, the cause of the tragedy was the human factor. An army aviation pilot, who has extensive experience flying the Mi-8 helicopter, including in combat conditions, noticed that the EMERCOM helicopter was not flown by ordinary pilots, but by a manager who had significantly less experience than his subordinates.
There were three people on board the crashed Mi-8: the crew commander - the 38-year-old head of the Zhukovsky Aviation Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the co-pilot - his deputy, 42-year-old and the 32-year-old flight engineer. They all died.
“Chiefs, as a rule, have a clearly exaggerated idea of their flight training and skills. The cause of 80% of plane crashes is the human factor,” said Gazeta.Ru’s interlocutor.
The Mi-8 is a multifunctional helicopter capable of performing missions in a wide range of conditions and temperatures (from -50°C to +50°C). It is considered easy to operate and maintain. Serial production of the helicopter began in 1965 at the Kazan Helicopter Plant OJSC and in 1970 at the Ulan-Ude Helicopter Plant OJSC.
The Mi-8 is equipped with an anti-icing system that operates both automatically and manually. The helicopter's external suspension system allows it to transport cargo weighing up to 3000 kg.
If one engine fails during flight, the other engine automatically switches to increased power. In this case, horizontal flight is performed without reducing altitude.
The Mi-8 is equipped with an autopilot and navigation and flight instruments and radio equipment, which allow flights at any time of the day and in difficult weather conditions.
The helicopter crew is three people. Maximum take-off weight 13,000 kg. The Mi-8 can reach speeds of up to 250 km/h, and its practical flight range is 950 km.
According to another interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru, who collaborates with the Ministry of Emergency Situations aviation, the version of a helicopter malfunction has been ruled out. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the crashed helicopter was on a training flight, practicing rescue operations during particularly difficult conditions.
“Apparently, during the training of actions in difficult weather conditions, an emergency situation occurred. It is quite possible that the load was on an external sling, the ground touched down, and the cables overlapped. It is possible that the pilots took unjustified risks out of a desire to complete this experiment and get the desired results,” the source said.
The unfavorable situation on board the helicopter developed like an avalanche, since the pilots did not even get in touch and did not inform about the problems on board, noted the interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru.
“If we consider the version of equipment failure,” the expert argues, “then most likely it is a failure of the main gearbox or a simultaneous failure of both hydraulic systems. This happens very rarely, but such cases are still observed in practice.”
At night, while dismantling the wreckage of the helicopter, both “black boxes” were found. Now the recorders are sent for decoding in . MAK declined to comment.
The Mi-8 crash occurred on the evening of September 21. The place where the car crashed was in the Tomilinsky forest park, a few kilometers from the town of Lytkarino near Moscow, according to the website of the Moscow Interregional Transport Agency. At the moment, department officials are conducting a pre-investigation into the incident. So far, investigators are considering two main versions of the disaster: crew error and equipment failure. After falling to the ground, the helicopter caught fire.
The press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations emphasizes that the transport was driven by an experienced crew. All its members “took part in difficult rescue operations dozens of times,” the department emphasized.
On September 21, during a training flight in the Lyubertsy region, a Mi-8 helicopter from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations crashed, killing three crew members. This is the third serious accident in EMERCOM aviation in 2016. What is the reason for the increasing frequency of disasters?
One of the versions of the MI-8 crash of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Moscow region is engine failure, reports Vzglyad. A reason to look at the state of the Ministry of Emergency Situations’ fleet, especially since this is not the first aviation accident in 2016. In July, an Il-76MD crashed in the Irkutsk region; in August, a Be-200ES crashed into a tree in Portugal (fortunately, no one died in the accident; they promise to put the car on its wing). Judging by the statistics, the year for EMERCOM aviation is turning out to be “black”. So what do the numbers tell us? Let's turn to the portal russianplanes.net for help.
In total, since 1990, the Ministry of Emergency Situations has included 102 aircraft. From 1990 to 2015 inclusive, emergency situations occurred in the aviation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations only two disasters. This:
The crash of the Mi-26T helicopter on May 3, 2003 in the Chita region, killed 12 people (a cable got into the propeller);
Ka-32 crash in the Stavropol Territory on November 11, 2014. 4 people were injured, the pilot of the aircraft was killed.
During the same time, it was lost in accidents only three aircraft:
In October 2011, an Mi-8MT crashed during a patrol in Transbaikalia;
On August 2, 2008, while landing a group of athletes in the Elbrus area, a Mi-8MT crashed;
That is, in 2016 alone there were as many accidents in the aviation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations as in the previous 25 years! One aircraft suffered an accident, compared to three accidents in a quarter of a century. What's happening?
Let's look at the average age of aircraft, it does not look old - 14.6 years. The oldest aircraft in the Ministry of Emergency Situations are Mi-8 helicopters, among them there are several 30-40-year-old “oldies”. The Mi-8P that crashed in the Moscow region was produced in 1993.
Among the aircraft, the oldest are the Il-76TD. In total, the Ministry of Emergency Situations operates five such machines, all of them were produced in 1993-1995. As you can see, there is no need to say that the Ministry of Emergency Situations uses old equipment.
What is the reason for the increasing frequency of disasters? Of course, a fatal coincidence cannot be ruled out. However, it seems that the root of the evil lies in the organization of flight work, which includes not only normal maintenance, but also pilot training.
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Black Summer of Aviation Ministry of Emergency Situations
While extinguishing forest fires in the vicinity of the city of Leiria, a Be-200 Ministry of Emergency Situations aircraft collided with a tree. Fortunately, no one died. The crew of the aircraft, led by Honored Pilot of the Russian Federation Valery Kruse, was able to bring the damaged aircraft to the airfield.
The air group of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, consisting of two Be-200ES aircraft, arrived and began to extinguish large forest fires in the Portuguese city of Leiria. However, according to Jornal de Noticias, one of the planes had a problem with the water intake system. The second plane, piloted by the crew of Valeri Kruse, began to extinguish the fires, but already in one of the first flights it collided with a tree. According to L!FE, the plane ripped open its wing and fuel tank. The so-called floats that support the amphibian's wings on the water were also damaged.
Fortunately, the crew managed to bring the damaged car to the airfield, and no one was killed. Currently, both Russian Be-200s are undergoing repairs at the Monte Real airbase.
The collision of a Be-200ES with a tree is the second incident involving firefighting aircraft of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in a month and a half. On July 1, while fighting fires in the Irkutsk region, an Il-76 with tail number 76840 crashed. The entire crew of the aircraft was killed.
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The Be-200, a unique Russian aircraft, is also called a flying boat. It is capable of taking off both from the ground and from the water surface. The flight can be compared to a roller coaster, there is quite a bit of chatter there due to the fact that it flies at a low altitude. In any case, I will remember this flight for a long time).
Since April 13, aviation from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has been actively involved in extinguishing fires in Transbaikalia. During this period, the aircraft performed 108 discharges and dropped about 1,000 tons of water. With the help of rescue aircraft, 8 natural fires that threatened populated areas were extinguished.
The Be-200 aircraft is capable of taking a maximum of water - 12 tons, and dropping it at a ton per second. It all depends on what mode the water is discharged in. In a salvo - one or two tanks. Depending on this, the extinguishing strip. 200-300 meters can be extinguished if you stretch it out.
The aircraft is capable of carrying up to 64 passengers.
Oxygen cylinders.
Pilots receive coordinates from the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, where all information about the fire flows from the satellite. Pilots don't like to be photographed. I didn't insist.
Overboard there are small pockets of already smoldering fires, we fly further to the intended point.
We are approaching the intended point in the mountains; fire trucks cannot reach here.
And here aerobatics begins, the plane descends to the minimum altitude. to effectively extinguish the fire.
Cool turn. entering the fire. It looks like we'll touch the ground now.
At this moment I managed to photograph the shadow of the amphibious aircraft.
The plane descends to 50 meters and suddenly drops tons of water onto the fireplace. And it soars up sharply, so that your heart jumps out of your chest.
Our flight took 40 minutes before the fire and the same amount back. After this, the Be-200 stopped for another refueling with water and then flew to the next point.
The video that the Ministry of Emergency Situations gave me shows exactly how the water is being released.
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An Il-76 EMERCOM plane with tail number 76840 crashed on July 1 while fighting forest fires that threatened populated areas. The crew tried to the last to save the car. According to the preliminary version, hot air from the fires could have gotten into the plane's engine, the airliner lost thrust, it was unable to gain altitude, got caught in the treetops and crashed.
I flew more than 100 hours with EMERCOM pilots on all types of airplanes and helicopters and always felt safe; they are high-class professionals.
The crew of the missing heavy transport aircraft Il-76, whose commander Leonid Semenovich Filin, while working in the Siberian Federal District, had already completed 33 combat missions, dropped more than a thousand tons of water. To perform this work, the aircraft is equipped with a VAP-2 system (aircraft pour-out device) and is capable of simultaneously dropping up to 42 tons of water onto fires.
Thanks to the professional actions of this crew of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Irkutsk region, seven large fires were eliminated and 30 settlements, home to more than 50 thousand people, were protected. Every day, ace pilots worked in difficult conditions of heavy smoke, high temperatures and difficult terrain. To effectively extinguish the fire, the aircraft often had to descend to the lowest possible altitude.
This is not the first time that Leonid Semenovich’s crew has worked in the Irkutsk region; last year he flew out to extinguish fires on Lake Baikal. The aircraft commander, Leonid Filin, is an Honored Pilot of the Russian Federation, a first-class pilot. Graduated with honors from Balashovskoye VVAUL. In the combat units of the Air Force, he worked his way up from an ordinary pilot to an aviation squadron commander. He flew the L-29, An-24, An-26, An-72, Il-18, I-22, Il -76 aircraft. He has about 12 thousand flight hours. He served in military transport and transport aviation units of the USSR and Russia. Participant in combat operations in Afghanistan. In aviation of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations since 1995. Participated in almost 200 rescue and humanitarian operations in the country and abroad.
Leonid Filin was among the first to master extinguishing large-scale fires on a heavy Il-76 aircraft. This was in the summer of 1996, when there was a difficult fire situation in the Khabarovsk Territory in the area of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. 3 crews of the Federal State Unitary Aviation Enterprise of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia were sent there to extinguish the forest fires, including the crew of L. Filin.
Then it was the first actual flight of aviation pilots of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, trained to extinguish fires. There were many difficulties that complicated the work of aerial firefighters: mountainous terrain, suffocating fumes, high temperatures and heavy smoke, which made orientation difficult. After each flight, the crews held meetings where they exchanged experiences. Then they went off on a mission again.
The experience gained by the pilots through intense training helped them successfully complete the mission.
Then, in five days in the Khabarovsk Territory, the crews of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations performed 50 flights and dropped a total of more than 2 thousand tons of water on the fires. The raging element of fire was defeated. As a result, 7 settlements, 2 fur farms, and 3 children's health camps were saved.
Thus, for the first time in the history of aviation, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia actually extinguished wild fires using Il-76 aircraft equipped with VAP-2 aircraft pour-out devices.
After completing the work near Khabarovsk, the crews flew to Volgograd, where, for the first time in world practice, they began extinguishing a fire at the settling pond of Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka CJSC. There has never been such a large-scale fire in our country. The population of the Volgograd and Rostov regions was threatened with an environmental disaster. It was necessary to take urgent, extraordinary measures.
The specialists who were part of the fire extinguishing headquarters were skeptical that it was impossible to extinguish the burning oil product settling tank from the air. But the pilots of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations proved the opposite!
In conditions of almost 40-degree heat and heavy smoke in the area, planes from extremely low altitudes dropped hundreds of tons of water and fire-extinguishing liquid onto the burning settling pond. As a result of the courageous and professional actions of the flight crews, the fire was extinguished. The effectiveness of the use of special fire fighting technologies by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations aviation exceeded all expectations.
For the courage shown when extinguishing fires in the Khabarovsk Territory and Volgograd, the flight crews for the first time in the history of aviation of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations were awarded state awards, and the crew commanders, including Leonid Filin, were awarded the Order of Courage.
The crew of the aircraft commander, Leonid Filin, is a well-coordinated, professional and very experienced team that has repeatedly participated in the liquidation of emergency situations on the territory of the Russian Federation and abroad, including having enormous experience in extinguishing fires on the Il-76, as well as in delivering humanitarian aid in difficult conditions. assistance and evacuation of victims.
The crew's co-pilot Alexey Lebedev has over 5.5 thousand flight hours under his belt, and navigator Georgy Petrov has over 7 thousand. The total flight time of the crew today is more than 71 thousand hours.
List of IL-76 crew members:
- Filin L. S - aircraft commander;
- Lebedev A. A - co-pilot;
- Zhdanov V.G. - aircraft technician;
- Kuznetsov V.N. - flight engineer;
- Makarov S. A. - flight operator;
- Mashninov A.M. - aircraft technician;
- Murakhin I.E. - flight radio operator;
- Petrov G.L. - navigator;
- Susov S. A. - flight operator;
- Khadaev M. M. - flight operator
It's a shame when the best leave. eternal memory to them.
The helicopter was flown by the head of the Zhukovsky Aviation Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
On the evening of September 21, a Mi-8 helicopter of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations crashed in the Lyubertsy district of the Moscow region. There were three people on board the aircraft, all of them died. Experts have already sent the black boxes found at the crash site for decryption. The 360 TV channel has collected everything that is known about the accident at the moment.
Training flight
The Ministry of Emergency Situations helicopter crashed while performing a training flight. Department employees were developing technologies that help save people in difficult conditions. According to Life, the crew trained what to do if one of the helicopter engines failed. Lenta.ru reported that the flight was carried out to practice monitoring in difficult weather conditions.
The flight took place at night in poor visibility conditions. The press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the crew tried to divert the aircraft away from residential buildings and the highway. The helicopter crashed in the forest and the crash site was discovered around 9:40 p.m.
Fire after the fall
The crashed helicopter instantly caught fire, and to extinguish the fire in the forest, the Ministry of Emergency Situations had to bring in additional forces - 50 employees of the Centrospas detachment and 50 employees of the Leader center. After finding the wreckage and extinguishing the fire, rescuers recovered the bodies of the dead from the destroyed helicopter.
Black boxes were also found at the crash site, one of them was in the cockpit, the other in the tail of the aircraft. According to a TASS source, the flight recorders are in satisfactory condition. They were transferred to the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) for decryption.
Causes of the crash
The exact cause of the disaster will be revealed only after the black boxes are processed. According to preliminary data, the crash could have occurred due to equipment failure or bad weather conditions. As REN TV reported, the helicopter crew did not contact dispatchers before the fall.
According to preliminary data, piloting error is also considered as one of the versions.
Experienced crew
There were three people on board the Mi-8, all of them died. The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation reported that the aircraft was flown by an experienced crew, at the helm was the head of the Zhukovsky aviation rescue center, 38-year-old Roman Frolov, his deputy (co-pilot), 42-year-old Dmitry Arsentyev, and 32-year-old Maxim Filippov (on board). engineer). All of them repeatedly participated not only in training flights, but also in difficult rescue operations.
Roman Frolov previously flew the Mi-26 heavy helicopter. In 2010, when the central part of the Russian Federation was engulfed in major forest fires, he worked in the Vladimir aviation squad of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Then Frolov extinguished fires in regions where the situation was almost critical - in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir regions. The Ministry of Emergency Situations emphasized that it saved thousands of people and hundreds of residential buildings from the fire.
“For high professionalism, courage and bravery, he was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree,” RIA Novosti quotes a representative of the department’s press service.
Arsenyev worked at the Ministry of Emergency Situations since 1994 and became one of the first to extinguish fires on the Mi-8 with a spillway device. He also took part in rescue operations in the Sea of Japan and Okhotsk.
The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations expressed condolences to the families of the victims.
“This is a terrible tragedy for the aviation of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, for their relatives and friends. Great professionals have left, those whose calling was to save human lives,” the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.
“We had night training sessions every Wednesday.”
In Zhukovsky near Moscow, after the tragedy with the Mi-8 helicopter, which crashed on the evening of September 21, during training flights, mourning was declared. : Head of the Zhukovsky Aviation Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 38-year-old Roman Frolov, co-pilot, his deputy, 42-year-old Dmitry Arsentyev, and flight engineer, 32-year-old Maxim Filippov.
“MK” tried to understand the situation: why the most experienced crew crashed and whether the plane crash could have been avoided.
Let us remind you that the Mi-8 of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations crashed in the Lyubertsy region during a training flight. Emergency Situations Ministry employees practiced rescuing people in particularly difficult conditions, in bad weather and in pitch darkness. Around nine in the evening the helicopter disappeared from radar. Two bystanders saw the diving car and the fire that broke out after the collision with the ground. Rescue services had to cut a clearing to get to the wreckage of the helicopter - they were found half an hour later, in the Tomilinsky forest park, just a kilometer from the village of Oktyabrsky. The bodies of all three crew members were also found there.
The next morning, September 22, the rescue work did not stop. The wreckage of the helicopter was removed from the scene of the emergency on trucks. The operational headquarters was deployed in a residential neighborhood not far from the scene of the tragedy. Up to a hundred people worked directly in the forest: employees of the “Tsentrospas” detachment and the “Leader” Special Risk Rescue Operations Center. We can already say that if it were not for the professional acumen of the crew, the tragedy could have turned out to be much larger - from a residential neighborhood to the crash site, nothing at all.
Apparently, the crew fought to the last and steered the plane away from the residential area during the crash, the acting officer told reporters. Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Moscow Region Alexey Pavlov.
What happened to his car and why the Mi-8 crashed is not yet known. The main versions of the investigation are a technical malfunction and a piloting error. Perhaps the black boxes, which have already been delivered to specialists for decoding at the Interstate Aviation Committee, will shed light on the truth.
It is known from ground services that the pilots did not report an emergency before hitting the ground. Experts also rule out weather conditions as a cause:
For ordinary citizens, the weather may not have been ideal: it was drizzling. There was a slight wind blowing. But for a helicopter flight these are acceptable weather conditions. Therefore, the weather was unlikely to be the cause of the disaster. Moreover, it can really be called favorable,” an aviation source familiar with the situation told MK.
The helicopter was over 20 years old at the time of the crash. At the same time, it is known that the crew, in accordance with the flight mission, performed aerobatic maneuvers during engine failure. Having once again turned off the engine at an altitude of 200 meters, the pilots were unable to start it again and the helicopter crashed.
Now the investigation also has to find out why the head of the ASC “Zhukovsky” and his deputy were in the same helicopter. How did it happen that in one fell swoop the aviation center was decapitated... Again, who allowed a training flight in an area where 25-story buildings are located? - said the source of MK.
Let us recall that on July 1, while extinguishing fires in the Irkutsk region, an Il-76 EMERCOM plane with a crew of 10 people crashed. The aircraft disappeared in a difficult-to-reach area. He was found on the slope of a hill south of the village of Rybny Uyan. The investigation has not yet identified those responsible for the plane crash.
The second incident occurred during an international mission in Portugal. While extinguishing a forest fire on August 14, one of the planes of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations almost crashed. The crew survived. The car was then driven by the honored pilot of Russia Valery Kruse.
Their colleagues and friends spoke about what professionals and people the pilots Roman Frolov, Dmitry Arsentyev and flight engineer Maxim Filippov were, as well as what could have caused the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter.
Dmitry Arsentiev.
What can we say now? Now we feel only bitterness and resentment that such wonderful people and professionals have left. Everyone is quite young, but already experienced. All the guys from the crew were very positive and sociable,” says Igor Komarov, deputy head of the Central Regional Center of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for Aviation, about his subordinates. - Roman Frolov came to us recently and became the head of the aviation rescue center. He integrated into the team very easily and found understanding among both his subordinates and management. It was very comfortable to work with him. Dima Arsentiev is a very bright person, he never took offense at anyone, he even reacted with humor to some negative statements addressed to him. Maxim Filippov is the youngest of the crew, but a very competent specialist. He was ready to carry out tasks at any time of the day or night, in any weather, no matter what the situation. He was very responsive to any request. Performed all tasks without any reasoning or ranting.
Roman Frolov.
-Was this a planned flight?
Yes, the tasks were carried out as planned, everything was in accordance with the governing documents.
At the helm of the Mi-8 was Colonel Roman Frolov, who headed the Zhukovsky air rescue center. He was everyone's favorite wherever he served. Roman’s two younger brothers also connected their lives with aviation: one works as a Boeing 737 co-pilot, the second serves in the FSB and manages the Mi-8 crew.
Roman graduated from the Syzran Higher Military Pilot School in 2000. He served in our aviation rescue center since March 2015,” says Kantemir Davydov, head of the press service of the North Caucasus regional center of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. - Before that, I met with him in South Ossetia in 2008. We jointly carried out tasks to deliver humanitarian cargo. Then Roman came to serve us. He was already a well-trained pilot, a “first class pilot,” who had more than 1,300 hours of flight time. Everyone immediately noted how competent, neat, and punctual he was. A real officer. Here in the North Caucasus, he went through a harsh school. To be honest, it was very sad when he left us for a promotion. Because there are many pilots, but only a few super-professionals. For us it was, of course, a loss. Because flying in the mountains is not an easy task. You can always feel whether the pilot is driving the car confidently or not, whether he is afraid of the mountains or not. You could fly with this guy. In June we said goodbye to him very warmly, said parting words, believed that he had a long flying life ahead of him...
Roman Frolov only had the chance to head the Zhukovsky Aviation Rescue Center for 4 months.
Roman immediately got into the swing of things, began to organize his life, and delve into the pressing problems of the personnel,” says his colleague Victor. - Dima Arsentiev and Maxim Filippov worked at the center for a little over three years. No one has ever said anything bad about them. These are reliable, thorough Russian men who did their work simply and with love. I talked more with Maxim. Everyone who knew him noted his cheerful disposition. He was actually a very cheerful and positive person. It is very difficult for me to talk about him in the past tense. Just an hour before departure, we stood with him and smoked. He was unusually silent. It was as if he had a presentiment of something that day...
Maxim Filippov.
Maxim's relatives in the Stavropol Territory cannot believe his death.
Maxim was a real technician and really wanted to fly,” says his brother’s wife Natalya. - We were expecting him to visit in October. He promised to fly home to Stavropol. He so wanted to see his mother, whom he simply idolized... And now his brother Sergei has flown to Moscow to follow him...
Everyone is interested in what could have happened to the crew in the sky.
We’re scratching our heads,” says Victor. - The commander is a very experienced pilot, the second one has also flown a lot. What happened there is a mystery. On this day, this helicopter flew during the day with the same composition, and everything was in order. In general, we had night training sessions every Wednesday.
According to the rules, the head of the aviation rescue center and his deputy can fly and practice maneuvers on the same board?
They can. The first, as an instructor, can test the skills of the other. But again, they were both excellent pilots.
From open sources it became known that during a training flight the pilots practiced aerobatic maneuvers in case of engine failure. The engine was turned off several times, and during the next shutdown it did not start. But there is a second engine.
It is too early to judge what happened. Deciphering the “black” boxes will show what really happened on board.
Rescuers continue to work at the site of the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation. According to the latest data, the fire that broke out after the fall was extinguished. RBC also reports the discovery of the flight recorders of the crashed aircraft. The “black boxes” will be transferred to the MAK for further decryption.
According to the REN-TV channel, the helicopter crashed a kilometer from a dense residential area. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the crew tried until the last minute to move the falling aircraft away from residential buildings. Local residents note that they did not hear an explosion when the helicopter crashed, since it fell far enough from the houses.
The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said that the crashed Mi-8 was controlled by an experienced crew. On board were the head of the Zhukovsky aviation rescue center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Roman Frolov, the co-pilot, his deputy Dmitry Arsentyev and flight engineer Maxim Filippov. All pilots had experience in participating in difficult rescue operations, RIA Novosti clarifies.
Video recordings taken at the scene of the accident were also published. Emergency Situations Ministry specialists removed from the air the wreckage of a helicopter that fell in a forest thicket. Please note that special equipment cannot reach the accident site, so the forest around it is being cut down.
There is no official version of the crash yet. According to various sources, the helicopter could have crashed due to a technical problem or bad weather conditions.