The cause of the disaster in Chechnya of two Mi -24 helicopters is a collision with the mountain

The cause of the disaster of two Mi-24 military helicopters in Chechnya was a collision of cars with a mountain in complex weather conditions. This was announced on Wednesday by the head of the flight security service of the Russian Air Force, Major General Oleg Kolyada.

"The investigation of the causes of the disaster is completed. The official version of the tragedy is a collision of helicopters with a mountain in complex weather conditions," the general said.

Kolyada said that "no signs of helicopters from the Earth have been revealed," Interfax reports. "Deciphering" black boxes "also allowed to completely exclude the version of the technical malfunction of the machines,” he said.

“It was established,” Kolyada continued, “that in a collision with a rock, all the pilots died at once. 100 meters of height to overcome the mountain peak were not enough for Mi -24 military helicopters.”

Two military helicopters of the Mi-24 federal forces, each of which had two crew members, crashed on March 20 on the slopes of Mount Daikhokh in the Shata district of Chechnya, 65 km from Grozny. The place of the fall of one of them was discovered on March 25 in the mountains at an altitude of about 3 thousand meters above sea level. On April 2, the search and rescue services found the place of the second Mi-24 disaster.