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About the causes of the Mi-8 disaster, the deaths of three generals and nine senior officers

On Monday, September 11, at about 17 hours 30 minutes five kilometers from Vladikavkaz, the Mi-8 helicopter, assigned to the 58th combined arms army, whose headquarters is deployed in the capital of North Ossetia. Of the sixteen military, on board (3 crew members and 13 passengers), twelve were killed. Miraculously managed to escape the deputy commander-the head of the rear of the UKVO, Lieutenant General Alexei Sheereshkov, Colonel Sergei Dunaev from the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the chief of the Blot Directorate of the VSV, to Colonel Alexei Knutov, as well as the helicopter crew commander, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Sviridov. They were delivered with severe injuries to the Vladikavkaz military hospital.

Mi-8 took off from the helicopter site near the village of Gizel near Vladikavkaz and headed for Khankala, but after a few minutes of flight crashed. According to eyewitnesses, after a blow to the ground, the Mi-8 fell apart into two parts. Both military specialists and investigators identified the Mi-8 technical catastrophe as the main version of the Mi-8 catastrophe. In any case, the criminal case was opened under Article 351 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of the rules of flights and preparation for them”).

At the same time, the military completely eliminate the version of the possible terrorist attack, although the helicopter malfunction could be caused by both violations associated with maintenance and sabotage. I would not exclude this opportunity - I myself have repeatedly flew out of the helicopter site in Gizeli and I can say: it is not properly guarded. And secondly, the Ministry of Defense always knows information about the arrival of the high commission of the Ministry of Defense in advance everything, up to the ordinary. And there are many contracting fighters in their moral qualities far from the concepts of honor and duty. There are also those that cooperate with terrorists.

And in January 2002, a strange plane crash plane belonging to the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia took place in Chechnya. Then a group of senior officers and generals who arrived in Chechnya for verification died. And the security forces also excluded a terrorist attack, but that tragedy did not receive an objective investigation, although they spoke openly in the offices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about betrayal.

Vyacheslav Izmailov, military observer "New"

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Jamaat informed the beginning of the aircraft

The AK is known, the North Ossetian Jamaat "Kataib Al Hole" on September 12 took responsibility for the fall of the Mi-8 helicopter and the death of high-ranking officers. Jamaat said that the helicopter was shot down by a shot from MANPADS (a portable anti-aircraft missile system).

In vain. The existence of a combat armed sabotage jamaat in the North Ossetia-Alania has been known for several months. It was created about a year after the Beslan events from the fragments of previous North Ossetian jamaats, defeated by the Republican FSB for several months that followed the terrorist attack.

As with such statements, a helicopter with such a high -ranking commission nevertheless rose from Gizeli, it is completely incomprehensible.

Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "New"

09/14/2006