Details of the crash of a helicopter with Russian military specialists, which crashed in the Central African Republic (CAR), have emerged. This became known on the air of the Vesti Nedeli program on the Russia 1 TV channel.
The squadron commander reportedly requested an urgent helicopter evacuation. “We took off and began to circle sharply. Spun, spun and fell. (…) No harm done. We fell on soft ground, ”the wounded soldier told the correspondent Alexander Rogatkin.
Fuel leaked from the tank, and clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky.
The pilot and the wounded instructor were taken with a military convoy to the nearest airfield. It is clarified that the road will take five hours, since you need to move along a broken dirt road. From there they will be sent to the capital.
