Kyiv helicopter crash kills 18, top Ukraine officials dead

AP ^ | 18 Jan 2023 | ANDREW MELDRUM

[blueplum]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A helicopter crash in a Kyiv suburb Wednesday killed 18 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister and three children, Ukrainian authorities said.

There was no immediate word on whether the crash was an accident or a result of the war with Russia. No fighting has been reported recently in the Kyiv area.

Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his deputy Yevhen Yenin and State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yurii Lubkovych were among those killed...

[jerod]

Accidents still happen... Even in a war zone.

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Lubkovych, Monastyrskyi, Yenin

[mad_as_he$$]

Seems ill advised to put that many big titled people on one helo. Most companies have rules about how many executives can fly on one aircraft at any given time. And that is in peacetime with civilian aircraft.

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A typical Super Puma helicopter .

[DesertRhino]

Some were killed on the ground. Story said it hit a kindergarten.

[momincombatboots]

Ah… the old PLO tactics. I will say, that’s how they get what $40 billion a week now from US taxpayers.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Yeah, basic security, someone screwed up.

This is why the President and Vice President never travel together. The same for the King and the Prince of Wales.

At least it is the Interior ministry and not the Defense ministry.

[mad_as_he$$]

My policy is to not give AP clicks! I did read the entire posted portion though.

[nuconvert]

” Story said it hit a kindergarten.”

Oh my. That explains the 3 children killed.

[mewzilla]

More likely Ukraine’s Deep State cleaning house.

[lodi90]

I’ll happily ride in a Cessna but something about helicopters scares the heck out of me. The wrong part breaks on a helicopter and its straight down like a rock with basically no hope of survival.

[struggle]

Yeah, the interior minister probably wanted peace

[Oil Object Insp]

That what I thought upon reading this.

The Ukraine is wobbly.....

[Clutch Martin]

“The wrong part breaks on a helicopter and its straight down like a rock with basically no hope of survival.”

Military aircraft mechanics used to call it the “Jesus nut” it was one of those critical fasteners that held the blade assembly on.

[Clutch Martin]

With kids onboard? What’s up with that? Some kind of third world perk?

[csvset]

No, the helo crashed into a neighborhood. Buildings, cars, affected by the crash and fire, pictures and videos on the www.

[Lazamataz]

I’ll happily ride in a Cessna but something about helicopters scares the heck out of me. The wrong part breaks on a helicopter and its straight down like a rock with basically no hope of survival.

Nah. Autorotation will put you on the ground safely. Hard landing, but you'll be safe.

[tlozo]

Yeah, the interior minister probably wanted peace

Ukraine has been invaded by russian soldiers who have leveled towns and cites while they have robbed, raped, and executed civilians. There is pretty much nobody in Ukraine calling for "peace" with the russians.

[Dixie Yooper]

There was no immediate word on whether the morning crash, near a kindergarten and reportedly in heavy fog, was an accident or related to the war, but Ukrainian authorities immediately opened an investigation

Do the Ukraine's have more kindergartens per square kilometer than Palestinian's? Asking for a friend...