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2007 Shatoy Mi-8 crash
Occurrence
A Russian Mil-Mi-8 similar to the aircraft involved in the incident.
Date	April 27, 2007 (2007-04-27)
Summary	Pilot error
Site	Near Shatoy, Chechnya, Russia
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Mil Mi-8
Operator	Russian Ground Forces
Registration	65-gray
Occupants	20
Passengers	17
Crew	3
Fatalities	20
Survivors	0

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Second Chechen War
(guerrilla phase)

Insurgency since May 2000

The 2007 Shatoy Mi-8 crash occurred on April 27, 2007, when a Russian Armed Forces Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying special forces troops and officers crashed in mountainous terrain in southern Chechnya, killing all 20 people on board.

The incident is the largest officially acknowledged loss of life for federal troops in Chechnya in 2007 and the worst Russian military aircraft disaster since August 2002, when an enormous Mil Mi-26 transport helicopter packed with troops crashed into a minefield after being hit by a missile, killing 127 soldiers.

Crash

The crashed helicopter was one of three Mi-8 transports and two Mil Mi-24 attack helicopters of the Russian Air Force which lifted off from a helipad to the east of the city of Gudermes. It was carrying 15 GRU Spetsnaz Rostov Oblast Brigade recon commandos and two high-ranking Russian military officers from the main Russian military base at Khankala in Chechnya.

Russian officials initially claimed the helicopter was downed by small arms fire from Chechen separatists. Chechen authorities cited mechanical fault as a cause of the crash. A special commission tasked with investigating the crash eventually determined that the most likely cause was human error.

Background

The two officers on board as passengers—a Lieutenant Colonel and a Major—were to serve as liaison officers to ethnic Chechen troops who had, according to federal sources, spotted a group of up to 15 Chechen separatists near the southern village of Shatoy. These allied Chechens had reportedly asked for federal assistance and air support. According to the separatist account, the pro-Russian troops were ambushed by separatist fighters who inflicted heavy losses on them.

On April 28, 2007, Russian officials asserted that at least three rebels were killed during a ground operation near the crash site, while Russian media reported five soldiers, including two Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) servicemen, died in the fighting. At the same the separatists, reportedly led by Dokka Umarov and Ramzan Saluyev, claimed to have killed 30-50 soldiers on the ground and 20-30 airborne soldiers, compared to their own claimed losses of two fighters killed and several wounded.

References

"Accident Mil Mi-8 65-gray, Friday April 27 2007". Aviation Safety Network. April 27, 2007. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
(in Turkish) Şatoy operasyonda yeni gelişmeler... Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Military Helicopter Downed: '17 Dead', Sky News, April 27, 2007
Russian helicopter is 'shot down', BBC News, 27 April 2007
Chechen rebels 'down helicopter', Al-Jazeera, April 27, 2007
Helicopter shot down in Chechnya kills 18, Reuters, April 27, 2007
Chopper Goes Down in Southern Chechnya, The Jamestown Foundation, May 3, 2007

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 2007 (2007)
Jan 1 Adam Air Flight 574Jan 9 Aerian-TurM An-26 crashJan 24 Air West Flight 612Jan 25 Régional Flight 7775Feb 21 Adam Air Flight 172Mar 5 Zell am See mid-air collisionMar 7 Garuda Indonesia Flight 200Mar 17 UTair Flight 471Mar 23 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport crashApr 21 Blue Angels South Carolina crashApr 27 Shatoy Mi-8 crashMay 5 Kenya Airways Flight 507May 26 San Francisco Int'l runway incursionJun 3 Paramount Airlines helicopter crashJun 21 Free Airlines L-410 crashJun 25 PMTair Flight 241Jul 17 TAM Airlines Flight 3054Jul 27 Phoenix news helicopter collisionAug 9 Air Moorea Flight 1121Aug 20 China Airlines Flight 120Sep 9 Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 1209Sep 12 Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 2748Sep 16 One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269Oct 4 Africa One Antonov An-26 crashOct 26 Philippine Airlines Flight 475Oct 27 Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 2867Nov 7 Nationwide Airlines Flight 723Nov 30 Atlasjet Flight 4203
2006 ◄ ► 2008

Aviation accidents and incidents in 2007 (2007)

Jan 1 Adam Air Flight 574Jan 9 Aerian-TurM An-26 crashJan 24 Air West Flight 612Jan 25 Régional Flight 7775Feb 21 Adam Air Flight 172Mar 5 Zell am See mid-air collisionMar 7 Garuda Indonesia Flight 200Mar 17 UTair Flight 471Mar 23 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport crashApr 21 Blue Angels South Carolina crashApr 27 Shatoy Mi-8 crashMay 5 Kenya Airways Flight 507May 26 San Francisco Int'l runway incursionJun 3 Paramount Airlines helicopter crashJun 21 Free Airlines L-410 crashJun 25 PMTair Flight 241Jul 17 TAM Airlines Flight 3054Jul 27 Phoenix news helicopter collisionAug 9 Air Moorea Flight 1121Aug 20 China Airlines Flight 120Sep 9 Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 1209Sep 12 Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 2748Sep 16 One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269Oct 4 Africa One Antonov An-26 crashOct 26 Philippine Airlines Flight 475Oct 27 Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 2867Nov 7 Nationwide Airlines Flight 723Nov 30 Atlasjet Flight 4203

2006 ◄ ► 2008

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the Russian Federation in the 2000s
2001	Omsk An-70 crash (January 2001) Vladivostok Air Flight 352 (July 2001) Grozny Mi-8 crash (September 2001) Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 (October 2001) IRS Aero Flight 9601/02 (November 2001) Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Flight 9064 (December 2001)
2002	Shelkovskaya Mi-8 crash (January 2002) Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 (July 2002) Khankala Mi-26 crash (August 2002)
2004	Russian aircraft bombings (August 2004)
2005	Regional Airlines Flight 9288 (March 2005)
2006	Armavia Flight 967 (May 2006) S7 Airlines Flight 778 (July 2006)
2007	UTair Flight 471 (March 2007) Shatoy Mi-8 crash (April 2007)
2008	Moskovia Airlines Flight 9675 (May 2008) Aeroflot Flight 821 (September 2008)
2009	Makhachkala Il-76 collision (January 2009) Yakutia Il-76 crash (November 2009)
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