Even the parent Mi-8 transport helicopter has been known to do that. Here’s one that ate a missile in Syria. It pretty much shrugs off the SAM and keeps flying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJG-w70Tlvc
The people responsible for launching the missile are immediately jubilant when the missile scores a hit but are quite disheartened when the Russian chopper fails to explode, fall out of the air, go on fire or pretty much do anything else but keep flying.
Here’s a Hind getting a missile in the ‘face’ and it just keeps flying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVzq8YZcBqQ
>The people responsible for launching the missile are immediately jubilant when the missile scores a hit but are quite disheartened when the Russian chopper fails to explode, fall out of the air, go on fire or pretty much do anything else but keep flying.
Mi-8 > Allah.