The latest reports say 18 servicemen have died in a Mil Mi-8 helicopter crash in Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported quoting a source at the headquarters of the joint federal force in the North Caucasus.
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April 28, 2007A military helicopter went down in Russia’s volatile province of Chechnya killing all 17 people on board, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported quoting a source in the military.
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Russia remains the most dangerous place to fly despite global improvements that made 2006 the safest year on record, the Reuters news agency reported quoting the latest annual report by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) released on Tuesday.
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April 18, 2007One person died and another one was injured after a Ukrainian helicopter crash, the DPA news agency reported on Wednesday.
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A missile fired by Islamist fighters was responsible for the plane crash that left 11 people dead in Somalia on Friday, the Reuters news agency quoted Belarus officials as saying on Sunday.
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March 26, 2007The MiG-29 jets crashed outside an air base in the town of Millerovo, the Rostov region (southern Russia), Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, an air force spokesman, said.
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March 22, 2007Vladimir Putin ordered a special Kremlin inquiry into the three tragedies to hit Russia since the weekend, Reuters news agency reported.
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March 21, 2007A Russian Tupolev-134 passenger jet crashed during landing in the airport of Samara on Saturday morning, killing 5 people and wounding at least 51, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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March 17, 2007The Eton-educated son of a Russian oil billionaire who killed a friend in a high-speed car crash was yesterday jailed for 6,5 years, The Times online website reported.
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December 8, 2006
An unidentified flying object has crashed in Krasnoyarsk Region, Siberia, causing a forest fire, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Friday.
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