The helicopter crashed close to a kindergarten killing the Ministry, a part of his crew, and three kids.
A Ukrainian H-225 Tremendous Puma helicopter has crashed at 08:20AM LT on Jan. 18, 2023, in Brovary, an jap suburb of the capital Kyiv, Ukraine. The constructing of the Nationwide Emergency Service was broken with subsequent hearth, glazing in a fourteen-story residential constructing and three vehicles. At 09:06AM, the fireplace within the constructing was contained to an space of 500 sq. meters, and at 09:28AM it was extinguished.
There have been 9 individuals on board: 6 members of the operational crew of the Ministry of Inner Affairs, together with the Inside Minister Denys Monastyrsky, his first deputy minister and state secretary, in addition to 3 members of the crew of the State Emergency Service. On the bottom, 9 individuals died, together with three kids. 30 individuals had been injured (together with 12 kids), who had been hospitalized
The rationale of the incident is being investigated. First reviews say the climate was foggy on the time of the crash however all the chances are being thought-about.
In accordance with the Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, the helicopter concerned within the incident is the Tremendous Puma with bort quantity “54”, an airframe that was “repeatedly concerned within the efficiency of duties for the transportation of personnel to the locations of emergency conditions. Among the many plane of the Ministry of Inner Affairs system, this one was most frequently used on account of the potential for transporting a enough variety of individuals on the identical time. The ship’s crew was ready to carry out duties below tough situations, had the required variety of hours of flight exactly on these EC-225 helicopters.“
Airbus Helicopters and Ukrainian MoI signed a contract for the provision of 21 H-225 helicopters in 2018. The primary two H225 Tremendous Puma helicopters arrived in Ukraine on December 20, 2018, after being overhauled and upgraded in Romania. It’s not clear what number of plane have been delivered to this point, but it surely’s identified that 10 had been in Ukrainian service by December 2021: 4 with the Nationwide Guard and one other six for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
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