Passengers 12 Injuries (non-fatal) 3 Date 11 September 2006 Operator Russian Ground Forces Passenger count 12 | Fatalities 12 Survivors 3 Number of deaths 12 Survivor 3 Crew count 3 | |
Summary Disputed (claimed shot down and suspected bad weather) Site Near Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania, Russia Similar 2006 Falsterbo Swedish, Iran Air Tours Flight 945, Air Algérie Flight 2208, 2006 Mercy Air Bell 412 c, ADC Airlines Flight 53 | ||
The 2006 Russian military Mil Mi-8 crash near Vladikavkaz killed 12 Russian military men, mostly high-ranking officers, among them Lieutenant-General Pavel Yaroslavtsev, deputy chief for army logistics, Lieutenant-General Viktor Guliaev, deputy chief of army medical units, and Major-General Vladimir Sorokin.
The Ossetian rebel group Kataib al-Khoul claimed responsibility for shooting down the helicopter.
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