13:26 “Aviadarts” in Ryazan held without Mi-28 – a REGNUM

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Ryazan, August 3, 2015, 13:26 – REGNUM Mi-28 will not participate in the start of the competition “Aviadarts “Army within international games, which begin on August 5 near Ryazan. On this, as reported by the correspondent of IA REGNUM in the management of the press and information service of the Defense Ministry, said the head of department Sergei Shoigu at the meeting of August 3

«All flights of Mi-28 terminated to a detailed study of flight recorder data. Scheduled for August 5 start of the competition “Aviadarts” within the Army international games will be conducted without the involvement of helicopters of this type, “- said Shoigu.

At the same meeting Sergei Shoigu said that until the last second of the pilots were trying to save the car, and given command of air and space forces drivers to submit to the state awards.

As previously reported IA REGNUM , on August 2 during a demonstration flight at the show “Aviamiks” – in international competition “Aviadarts” – the Mi-28 aerobatic team “Berkut” in the performance of aerobatic maneuvers went into a flat spin and made a crash-land . As a result, one of the pilots was killed, a second hospitalized. Presumably, the cause of the accident could be a failure of the hydraulic system of the helicopter.

Russian Air Force Commander Viktor Bondarev August 2, told reporters that at present the Commission ascertain the reasons for the disaster, all the flights of the Mi-28 suspended .