17-Apr-2021
Helicopter crashed during low level agricultural spraying operations. Pilot received fatal injuries ... Read more
29-May-2017Source: PZL-Świdnik
PZL-Świdnik, a Leonardo Group helicopter manufacturer, is pleased to inform that on 20th May this year the celebrations commemorating the 54th anniversary of the establishment of the oldest helicopter unit in Poland, i.e. the 56th Air Base in Inowrocław, were held at Inowrocław-Latkowo airfield. A special event accompanying the feast was comprised by celebrations of... Read more
29-May-2015Source: Russian Helicopters
Russian Helicopters (part of State Corporation Rostec) has signed two contracts to supply the modernised light Ansat passenger helicopter manufactured by Kazan Helicopters. Under the agreements, signed at HeliRussia 2015, the first customers for five of the new aircraft will be Tatarstan-based Tulpar Helicopters and Vector Aviation Company. “The niche for Russian-built light commercial helicopters... Read more
24-Mar-2015
Two deaths reported – helicopter on a post maintenance test flight after engine was replaced. Registration variously quoted as RF-01186 or RF-01168... Read more
26-Dec-2014
Emergency landing, breaking the tail boom. No injuries to three on board.... Read more
2-Nov-2014
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry has confirmed the death of two persons in the crash of a private Mi-2 helicopter in Yamal, northwest Siberia. Heliccopter crashed into a lake and only the tail visible above the water... Read more
30-Sep-2014Source: Russian Helicopters
The first group of third-year students at the Syzran campus of the Zhukovsky and Gagarin Air Force Academy’s Military Training Centre have completed training on new Ansat-U helicopters designed and built at Kazan Helicopters, a Russian Helicopters company (a subsidiary of Oboronprom, part of State Corporation Rostec). Previously Ansat-U helicopters were undergoing operation testing, and... Read more
13-Aug-2014
crashed due to wiring problem and burnt out completely. 2 crew members and 7 passengers managed to escape.... Read more
10-Jul-2014
Tail boom (or rotor?) hit wires on take-off, causing crash. Tail some metres from rest of wreckage, but unclear if that was contributory or result of accident. Aircraft had been leased by Lukoil and had just dropped off oil workers. Pilot Nicholas Vandakurov killed.... Read more
21-Jun-2014
Both pilots seriously injured in low level accident involving powerlines during agricultural operations – named as Anatoly Kurilov and Alexander Fumchenko... Read more
1-May-2014Source: SP-SFC
Privately owned Mi-2 fell onto its side in accident in open field. Main blades contacted tail boom. 7 POB, of which five to hospital. Registration confirmed by this tweet... Read more
5-Feb-2014
Rotor blades contacted building on take-off, causing helicopter to crash. Post accident fire. Pilot escaped unharmed... Read more
9-Sep-2013
Crashed and consumed by fire, killing all three on board. Photos of wreckage show it half buried, implying significant vertical speed at impact.... Read more
21-May-2013
Helicopter crashed into field during agricultural operations... Read more
17-Nov-2012
2 killed when helicopter crashed into forest... Read more
10-Aug-2012
Helicopter crashed while carrying out agricultural work. No further details at this time. Pilot fatally injured... Read more
16-Jul-2012
Mi-2 owned by Congo Interior Ministry (referred to in one report as a “police helicopter”) crashed killing Russian citizen, SP Korostel, and Belarusian citizen, MF Cherenkov. Earlier reports of 2 Ukrainians being killed were later dismissed... Read more
22-Mar-2012
Two people hijacked the helicopter, forced the pilot to fly to a prison at gunpoint, and then hovered as a rope ladder was dropped town for prisoner Alexei Shestakov to escape. Prison guards shot at the helicopter in an attempt to force it to land. The aircraft was later found abandoned on the edge of... Read more
8-Feb-2012Source: HeliHub.com
Russian Helicopters have denied the report in RIA Novosti earlier this week, in which they reported a new production line under the name Mi-2A would start in the Hebei Province in NE China later this year. Our reporter Nikolai Vanesev even quoted the amount of money being invested in the project. “No smoke without fire”,... Read more
6-Feb-2012Source: HeliHub.com
While the Mi-2 was a Russian design, only the prototypes first flew in that country. All the other 5,500 aircraft were produced by PZL at their plant in Swidnik, Poland, starting in 1966. Production has now ceased there, although some overhauls are still done – including a current batch for the Polish Air Force. It... Read more
30-Nov-2011
Impacted ground in fog while on low level pipeline patrol. 2POB, 1 fatal... Read more
22-Jun-2011
The helicopter had flown only about 300 metres after takeoff when it crashed, killing the sole occupant pilot... Read more
18-Jun-2011
Take-off accident, helicopter ended up on its side... Read more
28-May-2011
A Mi-2 helicopter crashed in the Stavropol Territory when it supposedly performed farm work. The pilot died, a source at the Emergencies Ministry’s regional centre said. The accident occurred in the village of Yasny at about 23:00 on Friday.... Read more
5-Feb-2011
Crashed and burst into flames shortly after take-off at 1900hrs – after emergency landing earlier in the day (see separate incident page here) and subsequent repairs. Pilot and passenger killed.... Read more
5-Feb-2011
Emergency landing due to engine problems. Later repaired but helicopter crashed fatally on subsequent take-off (see separate incident page here)... Read more
12-Jun-2010
Fourth digit of registration is not confirmed (see photos at URL2). Options are 20558, 20568, 20588 or 20598... Read more
20-May-2010Source: HeliHub.com
Ukraine’s Minister of Emergency Situations Nestor Shufrych has announced that a Mil Mi-2 helicopter has been allocated to a summer SAR role for the Sea of Azov. This 14,500 square mile sea is bordered by Ukraine to the north and Russia to the south and south-east. The helicopter will fly in daylight hours only from... Read more
8-Jul-2009
8-Jul-09 Mil Mi-2 Lesnichenko, 35 km from Smolensk, Russia... Read more
2-May-2009
2-May-09 RA-23710 Mil Mi-2 Kazan, Russia... Read more
29-Apr-2009
29-Apr-09 N2560Q Mil Mi-2 Harlingen, US-Texas... Read more
22-Apr-2009
22-Apr-09 RA-23302 Mil Mi-2 15 km from Luginetskogo gas field, Russia... Read more
17-Feb-2009
17-Feb-09 SP-ZXC Mil Mi-2 Budziszow, Poland... Read more
12-Jan-2009
12-Jan-09 RA-20981 Mil Mi-2 near Nefteyugansk, Tyumen Oblast, Russia... Read more
