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Tajik National Guard helicopter crash

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Survivors
  
0

Date
  
6 October 2010

Survivor
  
0

Aircraft type
  
Mil Mi-8

Fatalities
  
28 (all)

Crew count
  
28

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Site
  
Rasht Valley, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, Tajikistan

Summary
  
Controlled flight into terrain

Operator
  
Presidential National Guard

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The Tajik National Guard Helicopter crash was an accident that occurred on 6 October 2010 when a Mil Mi-8 military helicopter from the Tajik National Guard crashed in the Rasht Valley close to Ezgand and Tavildara. The helicopter became caught in power lines and crashed while attempting to land, leaving no survivors. This is the deadliest accident in Tajik aviation since 1997.

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Tajik National Guard helicopter crash Wikipedia