2002 Shelkovskaya Mi-8 crash

2002 Shelkovskaya Mi-8 crash
Occurrence summary
Date	January 27, 2002 (2002-01-27)
Type	Shot down by 9K38 Igla missile
Site	Near Shelkovskaya, Nadterechny District, Chechnya
Passengers	11
Crew	3
Fatalities	14
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	Mil Mi-8
Operator	Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs

Second Chechen War

(guerrilla phase)

Insurgency since May 2000

The 2002 Shelkovskaya Mil Mi-8 crash in Chechnya killed 14 people, including senior Russian officers, among them the deputy Interior Minister Mikhail Rudchenko.

On January 27, 2002, a Russian Interior Ministry Mil Mi-8 was shot down and exploded near Shelkovskaya in Nadterechny District, killing 14 people including crew. Among those killed in the crash were Lieutenant-General Mikhail Rudchenko responsible for security in the Southern Federal District, and Major-General Nikolai Goridov, deputy commander of the Internal Troops, as well as Colonels Oriyenko, Stepanenko, and Trafimov.^[1]

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