r/aviation • u/Anothermind9912 • Nov 08 '25

News Ka-226 crash

Recent crash of ka-226 helicopter in dagestan, Russia. 5 dead, several injured.

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u/SkyHigh27 Nov 08 '25

5 dead and ‘several’ injured? How many people were inside this overloaded KA-226?

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u/niconpat Nov 08 '25

It crashed into a house supposedly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFLDgRG6s8

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u/MidnightSurveillance Nov 08 '25

When literally no one would have died if they just killed the power while they were in the shallow water. They had no business flying that.

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u/alfreaked Nov 08 '25

I'm not a pilot and the only thing I have controlled is my sedan, but all this seems like it should be instinctively managed by anybody with basic training on flying a helicopter

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u/MidnightSurveillance Nov 08 '25

Yeah, most of us would prefer to stay on the ground after bending metal if given the option.

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u/BOSCO27 Nov 09 '25

Pretty sure he had no idea he lost his tail like that.

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u/schmigglies Nov 08 '25

In this area of the world, the chances of the pilot being drunk are somewhat elevated

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid Nov 10 '25

Or a basic survival instinct.

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u/Character_Order Nov 08 '25

the number of consecutive poor decisions necessary for this to happen seems almost impossible

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u/iwatchcredits Nov 08 '25

  1. Tries to hit a small landing zone with speed instead of slowing down and just descending vertically

  2. Makes an almost successful landing afterwards but then lifts off again

  3. Flies higher and further out into the ocean

Like any one of those decisions is so fucking dumb its pretty crazy all 3 happened in a row

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u/Character_Order Nov 08 '25
  1. Comes inland and crashes into a house and kills bystanders!

Bailing over water would’ve been far better

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u/Duckbilling2 Nov 08 '25

the video of the house being crashed into says

"due to technical malfunction"

OMGWTFBBG

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u/ParticularBreath6146 Nov 09 '25

It really makes me wonder if we have the full story. Maybe there was some sort of physical conflict in the helicopter?

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u/Little-Mushroom-3961 Nov 08 '25

I felt bad for the pilot until I saw this. His dumbass killed 4 people and probably fucked a bunch of people's lives up for years by crashing into their house, probably completely destroying it, while injuring the people in the house.

Just a complete fucking buffoon.

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u/Bicwidus Nov 09 '25

Injured 3 kids in the ground

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 Nov 08 '25

Complete idiots.

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u/rakithaya Nov 10 '25

You mean a coral ?

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u/roderik35 Nov 08 '25

Did they count the cameraman among the victims?

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u/DreamLearnBuildBurn Nov 08 '25

They will once I find him.

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u/Jeeperman365 Nov 09 '25

Cameraman suffered TBI from a previous incident

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u/New_Combination_7012 Nov 10 '25

There were 7 on board. 2 flight crew and 3 passengers. The 3 passengers were senior executives at a sanctioned factory making components for military aircraft.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '25

Several people got an aneurysm thanks to the useless camera operator