29/10/2013 18:29
Russian military helicopter crashes in Moscow, two injured
A military helicopter crashed Tuesday afternoon in a district on the edge of Moscow, injuring two people, RIA Novosti reported.
A law enforcement official said the ejection seats on the twin-seat Kamov KA-52 Alligator attack helicopter activated inadvertently, sending it crashing to the ground near the Vykhino-Zhulebino district in southeast Moscow.
Emergency Situations Ministry official said that flames caused by the crash spread across an area of 20 square meters.
This is the second time in two years that a KA-52 helicopter has crashed. Two pilots died in March 2012 after the same model crashed during a training flight near Torzhok in the Tver Region.
There have been previous accidents involving the single-seat Ka-50, from which the Ka-52 is derived.