2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash

2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash
	A VVS Mil Mi-26 similar to the helicopter that was shot down.
Incident
Date	19 August 2002
Summary	MANPAD shootdown
Site	Khankala, Chechnya
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Mil Mi-26
Operator	Russian Air Force
Passengers	142
Crew	5
Fatalities	127
Injuries	20
Survivors	20

On 19 August 2002, a group of Chechen fighters armed with a man-portable air-defense system brought down a Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter in a minefield, which resulted in the death of 127 Russian soldiers in the greatest loss of life in the history of helicopter aviation. It is also the most deadly aviation disaster ever suffered by the Russian Armed Forces,^[2] as well as its worst loss of life in a single day since the 1999 start of the Second Chechen War.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "Accident Details". Planecrashinfo.com. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference life was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "A calamity, yet no end of war in sight". The Economist. Associated Press. 22 August 2002. Archived from the original on 7 July 2018.

[PlanCrashInfo-1] "Accident Details". Planecrashinfo.com. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

[life-2] Cite error: The named reference life was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[3] "A calamity, yet no end of war in sight". The Economist. Associated Press. 22 August 2002. Archived from the original on 7 July 2018.

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