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((Infobox Airliner accident
|name=2007 Shatoy Mi-8 crash
|image= Russian Air Force, 62, Mil Mi-8 (20823728473).jpg |Image caption= A Russian Mil-Mi-8 similar to the aircraft involved in the incident.
| image_upright = 1.2
| Date= ((start-date|April 27, 2007|April 27, 2007))
| Type = [[Pilot error]]
| Site= Near [[Shatoy]], [[Chechnya]], [[Russia]]
| Fatalities= 20
| Injuries =
| aircraft_type= [[Mil Mi-8]]
| Operator = [[Russian Ground Forces]]
| tail_number=
| Passengers=17
|Crew=3
|Survivors=0
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((Campaignbox Second Chechen War (guerilla phase)))

The '''2007 Shatoy Mi-8 crash''' occurred on April 27, 2007, when a [[Russian military]] [[Mil Mi-8]] helicopter carrying [[special forces]] troops and [[Officer (armed forces)|officers]] crashed in mountainous terrain in southern [[Chechnya]], killing all 20 people on board.

The incident is the largest officially acknowledged loss of life for federal troops in Chechnya in 2007 and the worst Russian military aircraft disaster since August 2002, when an enormous [[Mil Mi-26]] transport helicopter packed with troops [[2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash|crashed into a minefield]] after being hit by a missile, killing 127 soldiers.

==Crash==

The crashed helicopter was one of three Mi-8 transports and two [[Mil Mi-24]] [[attack helicopter]]s of the [[Russian Air Force]] which lifted off from a [[helipad]] to the east of the city of [[Gudermes]]. It was carrying 15 [[GRU (Russian Federation)|GRU]] [[Spetsnaz]] [[Rostov Oblast]] Brigade [[Reconnaissance|recon]] commandos and two high-ranking Russian military officers from the main Russian military base at [[Khankala]] in Chechnya.

Russian officials initially claimed the helicopter was downed by [[small arms]] fire from Chechen separatists. Chechen authorities cited mechanical fault as a cause of the crash.((cn|date=April 2023)) A special commission tasked with investigating the crash eventually determined that the most likely cause was [[human error]].

==Background==

The two officers on board as passengers&mdash;a Lieutenant Colonel and a Major&mdash;were to serve as [[liaison officer]]s to ethnic Chechen troops who had, according to federal sources, spotted a group of up to 15 Chechen separatists near the southern village of [[Shatoy]]. These allied Chechens had reportedly asked for federal assistance and [[air support]]. According to the separatist account, the pro-Russian troops were ambushed by separatist fighters who inflicted heavy losses on them.

On April 28, 2007, Russian officials asserted that at least three rebels were killed during a ground operation near the crash site,((cn|date=April 2023)) while Russian media reported five soldiers, including two [[Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs]] (MVD) servicemen, died in the fighting. At the same the separatists, reportedly led by [[Dokka Umarov]] and [[Ramzan Saluyev]], claimed to have killed 30-50 soldiers on the ground and 20-30 airborne soldiers, compared to their own claimed losses of two fighters killed<ref>((in lang|tr)) [http://www.cecenonline.com/tr/devam.asp?yid=61 Şatoy operasyonda yeni gelişmeler...]</ref> and several wounded.

==References==
((Reflist|2))

==External links==
*[http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1263064,00.html?f=rss Military Helicopter Downed: '17 Dead'], [[Sky News]], April 27, 2007
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6599163.stm Russian helicopter is 'shot down'], [[BBC News]], 27 April 2007
*[http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F8767230-6411-45C3-8113-14556A02A539.htm Chechen rebels 'down helicopter'], [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al-Jazeera]], April 27, 2007
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201314/http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Helicopter_shot_down_in_Chechnya_kills_17.html?siteSect=143&sid=7762379&cKey=1177675697000 Helicopter shot down in Chechnya kills 18], [[Reuters]],  April 27, 2007
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155015/http://jamestown.org/chechnya_weekly/article.php?articleid=2373372 Chopper Goes Down in Southern Chechnya], [[The Jamestown Foundation]], May 3, 2007

((Aviation accidents and incidents in 2007))
((Aviation accidents and incidents in Russia))
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[[Category:Helicopter crashes of the Second Chechen War]]
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[[Category:2007 in Chechnya]]

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