The Mi-8 helicopter crashing in the suburbs, was ruled by the most experienced crew – RIA Novosti

01:4622.09.2016

(updated: 01:47 22.09.2016)

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MOSCOW, 22 sen – news. the Helicopter Mi-8 of EMERCOM of Russia, which crashed in the Moscow region, was ruled by the most experienced crew, reported the press service of EMERCOM of Russia.

the Mi-8 Helicopter belonging to the emergency situations Ministry, crashed near the suburban town Lytkarino. At the crash site were found the bodies of three dead crew members.

“On Board the helicopter were crew commander, chief of the Zhukovsky air rescue center of EMERCOM 38-year-old Roman Frolov, co-pilot, his Deputy, 42-year-old Dmitry Arsentyev, Board engineer 32-year-old Maxim Filippov. All of them have participated in difficult rescue operations”, — said the representative of the Ministry.

the novel Frolov in different years was a commander of a heavy helicopter Mi-26. While serving in the Vladimir squadron MOE in 2010, when Central Russia was seized the largest-ever forest fire, helicopter Mi-26, he extinguished them in the Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir and Moscow regions — in those regions where the situation was almost critical. “He defended from the fire hundreds of houses, a thousand people,” — said in the MOE.

In 2011, Frolov eliminated fires in the Arkhangelsk region, Krasnoyarsk region and Serbia. “For high professionalism, courage and bravery he was awarded the medal of the order “For merits before Fatherland” II degree”, — said the representative office.

Deputy Frolov Dmitry Arsentiev in the MOE since 1994. And from that time he was behind the wheel of a Mi-8. Arsentiev was one of the first people to put out fires on the helicopter Mi-8, equipped with overflow device. “In addition to extinguishing large fires in different regions of the country, he also participated in the rescue operations in the Okhotsk and Japanese seas, and in the flooded Lensk in 2001,” — said in the MOE. Arsentiev evacuated the casualties, delivered humanitarian aid, carried rescuers.

EMERCOM of Russia expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the victims.

“This is a terrible tragedy for the aviation of EMERCOM of Russia for their loved ones. Left large the professionals, those whose vocation was to save human lives,” — said in the MOE.

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