2006 Vladikavkaz Mi-8 crash

Infobox Airliner accident
name=2006 Vladikavkaz Mi-8 crash
Date=September 11 2006
Type=Disputed (claimed shot down and suspected bad weather)
Site=Near Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia-Alania, Russia
Fatalities=12
Injuries=3
Aircraft Type=Mil Mi-8
Operator=Russian Ground Forces
Tail Number=
Passengers=12
Crew=3
Survivors=3

The 2006 Russian military Mil Mi-8 crash near Vladikavkaz killed 12 Russian military men, mostly high-ranking officers, among them Lieutenant-General Pavel Yaroslavtsev, deputy chief for army logistics, Lieutenant-General Viktor Guliaev, deputy chief of army medical units, and Major-General Vladimir Sorokin.

The Ossetian rebel group "Kataib al-Khoul" claimed responsibility for shooting down the helicopter. [ [http://jamestown.org/chechnya_weekly/article.php?articleid=2373673 The Truth about the “Kataib al-Khoul” Ossetian Jamaat] ]

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* [http://www.softcom.net/webnews/wed/cb/Urussia-helicopter.RYaP_GSC.html 3 Russian generals reported dead in crash] GlobalSecurity.Org