The Cassation Military Court (deployed in Novosibirsk) received a complaint of Captain Andrei Polonsky, convicted of violation of flight rules after a crash at the Sostol's Saratov Military airfield of the Mi-8MTPR-1 helicopter. About this today, February 24, writes Kommersant.
In September 2019, after refueling in Saratov, the helicopter during the take-off hooked the surface of the runway, collapsed and caught fire. The crew saved. The Saratov Garrison Military Court sentenced Polonsky to four years in prison conditionally, recruiting 597 million rubles from him in favor of the Ministry of Defense.
As the "Kommersant" specifies, the Saratov court considered that the aircraft commander made a series of errors that led to PE. At first, he, knowing about the irregularities of the WFP, did not cause tractor, and with the permission of the head of the flight began pouring into place of take-off himself. At the same time, he in violation of the rules did not verify the willingness of the crew to the maneuver. Then, established a consequence, Polonsky pulled the turn too sharply at the same time why heavily increasing the overall pitch of the carrier screw. As a result, the helicopter gave a roll of 45 degrees, and the blades of the screw collapsed, the surfaces of the surface. Autopilot commander also did not turn on in advance, so the machine began to uncontrollamatically rotate at an altitude of up to seven meters above the ground, after which it collapsed.
At the time of the accident on board Mi-8, a complex of radio-electronic suppression of the L-187A "lever" was placed, on which most of the damage accounted for.
Andrei Polonsky himself stated that during the taxi he had a wheel in the pit, because of which the roll arose. According to the pilot, he considered that the chassis rack was abandoned, and acted on the basis of this.
In the cassation appeal, the pilot deficiency stressed that the authorities ordered him to manage Mi-8MTP-1, although he had no appropriate tolerance. In addition, for extinguishing the already burning machine, not intended for this technique.
The main cause of the accident commander and its defense called the fact that "the helicopter's taxtening was carried out on the strip that had invalid defects."