Kostroma airline

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2022: Air ambulance helicopter crash. Photo

On November 8, 2022, a Mi-2 helicopter flying a sanitary flight crashed in the Kostroma region. The incident occurred about 4 km from the Sokerkino airport in the Russian region.

The administration of the Kostroma region reported that the helicopter was transporting the patient - according to the North-West Transport Prosecutor's Office, to Kostroma. He died and two pilots and two paramedics were injured.

Ambulance helicopter crashed in Kostroma region

It is clarified that there were five people on board the Mi-2: two pilots - Anatoly Krasnogorov and Dmitry Vishnevsky, two paramedics - Alexander Polyukhov and Alexey Yakovlev, as well as a patient who was to be taken to the cardiovascular center of Kostroma with myocardial infarction. Already in the first minutes after the fall, it became known that the 67-year-old patient died, and crew members and doctors were seriously injured. All helicopter systems failed, communication with the victims was maintained thanks to paramedic Alexander, whose cell phone they managed to call.

Sanitary aviation services in the region are performed by the regional JSC Kostroma Airline. As follows from the state register of civil aviation aircraft, the JSC's portfolio included one Mi-2 helicopter with tail number RA-14185, it made its first flight in 1988. It is known that in 2019 the helicopter underwent a major overhaul at a plant in the Moscow region. Its service life was extended by 5 years.

Photo of the crash of an air ambulance helicopter in the Kostroma region

The Kostroma region was a participant in the federal priority project "Ensuring the timely provision of emergency medical care to citizens living in hard-to-reach areas of the Russian Federation," which was then immersed in the national project "Healthcare." ^[1]

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