1992 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown

Helicopter incident near Shusha, Azerbaijanthe 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown 28 January 1992 Mi8AmbulanceAZE.jpg An Mil Mi-8 similar to the accident helicopter Shootdown Shootdown near Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh Mil Mi-8 Aghdam Shusha Azerbaijani Air Force 41 3 0 44 On January 28, 1992, Azerbaijani transport helicopter Mil Mi-8 was shot down by a heat-seeking missilehttp://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA268014&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation U.S. Department of Transportation 2010-04-04 2011-06-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20110605053701/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA268014&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf dead near the town of Shusha. The 1993 report by U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on aviation security called it the "most significant incident" involving civil aviation in Central Eurasia. Background Serious air warfare during the Nagorno-Karabakh War broke out in January 1992. Azeri aircraft became easy targets for Armenian armed forces. On January 9, the Armenians first claimed to have shot down an Azeri helicopter. More claims followed on January 24, 28 and 31 – all of them over Nagorno-Karabakh, the last being a Mi-8 downed from MANPADs over the village of Huha.http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_280.shtml Air War over Nagorniy-Kharabakh, 1988-1994 https://web.archive.org/web/20140821205403/http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_280.shtml 2014-08-21 Air Combat Information Group Tom Cooper usurped 2010-04-04 On January 31, the Azeris claimed the downings of two Mi-8s that supported the first Armenian offensive. Shootdown The Mi-8 helicopter transported 44 persons aboard (41 passengers, all civilians, and 3 crew) when it departed the town of Aghdam for Shusha, which was blockaded by Armenians. The craft was downed en route by a surface-to-air missile. All aboard were killed.http://www.human.gov.az/?sehife=etrafli&dil=en&sid=MTEyNzM3MTA4MTIzMjg1Nw== Terrorist-subversive actions committed in the territory of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan's State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hlostages and Missing Persons 2010-04-04Ilya Maksakov (ed.). Journalists in the Karabakh War. Moscow`: Prava Cheloveka, 2002. According to Azeri journalist Kerim Kerimli, who assisted in collecting bodies at the site and confirmed the number of fatalities, the missile was launched from Xankəndi.http://www.library.cjes.ru/files/pdf/karabakh-war.pdf ru:Журналисты на войне в Карабахе Библиотека Центра экстремальной журналистики Керимли Керим 2010-04-04 ru dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110719071236/http://www.library.cjes.ru/files/pdf/karabakh-war.pdf 2011-07-19 Armenian officials stated that the helicopter was carrying weapons and ammunition to Azeris attacking Armenian villages. See also Azerbaijan Aviation List of aircraft shootdowns during the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict References 2 39 45 30 N 46 44 54 E type:city(2039700)_region:AZ title Category:Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Mil Mi-8 Category:1992 in Azerbaijan Category:Military operations of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in Azerbaijan Category:20th-century aircraft shootdown incidents Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1992 Category:January 1992 in Asia Category:Aircraft shootdown incidents in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict