Mi-8 crash near the settlement of Zhalagash on 28 February 2008
“Kazaviaspas”, Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mil Mi-8 · Technical failure on approach
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 13
- 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
- 13
- 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
- Government
Mil Mi-8
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The Mi-8 crash near the settlement of Zhalagash on 28 February 2008 was the air crash of a Mi-8 transport helicopter of the aviation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan (“Kazaviaspas”). On board the helicopter were 3 crew members and 15 passengers. The air crash killed two crew members and three passengers: the Mi-8 crew commander Fakhretdin Ungarbayev, co-pilot Galym Nurmaganbetov, deputy head of the regional Emergency Situations Department Kazbek Toremanov, senior officer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Nurlan Kumarov, pilot Vitaly Glazunov, and the press secretary of the regional akim Sakhidzhan Bermaganbetov.
Causes of the crash
The helicopter that crashed was manufactured in 1977; its assigned service life had been extended until September 2008. It proved impossible to establish the exact cause of the crash. Among the possible causes, the following were suggested:
Engine stoppage.
Interruption of the fuel supply to the machine's engine as a result of clogging of the fuel line.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ми-8 у посёлка Жалагаш 28 февраля 2008 года” (revision 153417226, 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
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Ми-8 у посёлка Жалагаш 28 февраля 2008 года
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 153417226 · 2026-06-05 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q16662526
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Ми-8 у посёлка Жалагаш 28 февраля 2008 года" (page 4389842, revision 153417226), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- 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)
- Operation
- operator named as a government agency in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.