Bell 407 crash near Listvyanka
Bell 407
From Bolshoye Goloustnoye to EMERCOM base in the settlement of Nikola, according to other data — Irkutsk
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA09WA286
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Final · Interstate Aviation Committee final report, 8 Dec 2009
- Event fatalities
- 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Bell 407
- Aircraft type
- Bell 407
- Category
- Helicopter
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- RA-01895
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From Bolshoye GoloustnoyeTo EMERCOM base in the settlement of Nikola, according to other data — Irkutsk
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The Bell 407 crash near Listvyanka was an aviation disaster that occurred on 10 May 2009. While flying over the Lake Baikal area, a Bell 407 helicopter with four people on board crashed 18 km from the settlement of Listvyanka in the area of the Malyshkino tract. The crash occurred at 00:13 (UTC+8). Information about the accident reached the EMERCOM Centre for Irkutsk Oblast only at 13.30 (UTC+8). According to the East Siberian Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office, the flight had not been coordinated with the air traffic control service of Irkutsk Airport. The search and rescue helicopter was able to land only 2 km from the crash site. For the further investigation, EMERCOM personnel cut a helipad at the accident site, where expert work was carried out over the following three days, after which the wreckage of the helicopter was taken to Irkutsk Airport for further examination. On 18 May the work of laying out the surviving fragments of the helicopter and engine was completed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Bell 407 под Листвянкой” (revision 154464530, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
NTSB narrative
On May 10, 2009, approximately 1001 universal time coordinated, a Bell 407 helicopter, Russian registration RA-01895AO, impacted terrain in the Irkutsk region approximately 3 kilometers from Malyshkino, Cheremshanka. The helicopter was substantially damaged. The 5 crew and 4 passengers were killed. The flight's last departure point was approximately 62 kilometers from the Irkutsk Airport (UIII), Irkutsk, Russia, and its intended destination.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Russia. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC/MAK) 22/2/1 Bolshaya Ordynka st. Moscow, 119017, Russia Telephone +7 495 9511368
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by the Government of Russia.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Bell 407 под Листвянкой
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 154464530 · 2026-08-15 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q4217208
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ERA09WA286
- Event ID
- 20090511X50332
- Case number
- ERA09WA286
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Bell 407 под Листвянкой" (page 1772855, revision 154464530), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case ERA09WA286 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date; matches the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC/MAK), Air Accident Investigation Commission final report
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record ERA09WA286
- Operation
- Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC/MAK), Air Accident Investigation Commission final report
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities; matches the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC/MAK), Air Accident Investigation Commission final report
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Bell 407 crash near Listvyanka" and NTSB case ERA09WA286, matched by the same aircraft maker and place and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- Checked against the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC/MAK), Air Accident Investigation Commission final report (2009-12-08) on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities, registration and damage. Taken from the report: type of operation. Shown unchanged where the report gives another value or wording: departure (shown Bolshoye Goloustnoye; report temporary landing site); destination (shown EMERCOM base in the settlement of Nikola, according to other data — Irkutsk; report Governor's residence landing site, GOK 'Angarskie Khutora'). Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type, operator and ground fatalities.