2020 Russian Mil Mi-24 shootdown

When

9 Nov 2020

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

39.73° N, 44.84° E

Description

aviation incident

Deaths

2

Injured

1

Cause

man-portable air-defense system

Helicopter crash in Armenia

On 9 November 2020, a Russian Mil Mi-24 helicopter was shot down by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. It was shot down near Yeraskh, in Armenia, a few kilometers away from Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, as a result of fire from the ground from man-portable air-defense system. Two of the crew members died, while another was injured as a result of the attack.

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