Russian Mi-8 crashed on highway after running out of fuel
- A Russian Aerospace Forces Mi-8 helicopter crashed onto a highway on Sakhalin Island on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, coming to rest in a roadside ditch after allegedly losing power from both engines.
- According to Fighterbomber, operated by Ilya Tumanov, the crew experienced fuel exhaustion in both engines roughly 5 kilometers short of their destination airfield. Tumanov stated the pilot steered the aircraft off the road to avoid striking vehicles.
- Video and photographs show the helicopter passing low over a truck before tipping onto its side in a roadside ditch, with a road sign pinned beneath the wreckage. No official Russian Ministry of Defense statement addressing the incident was located.
- Ukraine's Defense Intelligence reported Russia has imported at least 70,000 tonnes of Jet A-1 fuel from South Korea and Egypt since late August. These imports follow Ukrainian strikes that reduced Russia's domestic kerosene production.
- This crash follows a string of documented losses for Russian military and paramilitary Mi-8 helicopters this year. On August 22, an EMERCOM Mi-8MTV-1 suffered double engine failure in Krasnodar Krai, sustaining extensive damage during an emergency landing.
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A Russian military Mi-8 helicopter carrying a representative of a regional election commission, four journalists and three crew members made an emergency landing on a highway in Sakhalin. While returning from an early voting area, it began to lose altitude, but the pilot managed to get the helicopter onto the road, from where it then slid into a roadside ditch. According to initial reports, there were no serious injuries. Some Russian military c…
Moments of terror and a pretty hard landing were experienced by the crew of a Mi-8 helicopter returning from the Terpeniya Peninsula (translated as Patience) in the southeastern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin. On board at the time were representatives of the Sakhalin Regional Election Commission, four propagandists for local TV channels and three crew members. The helicopter ran out of fuel.
On the largest Russian island of Sakhalin, part of the same-named region in the east of the country, a multi-purpose MI-8 helicopter landed in an emergency, one of the most massive helicopters in the history of aviation and the most massive double-engineered helicopter known as the Soviet-Russian pilots.
The images of the moment come from Russia. A helicopter landed on a road after a technical malfunction.
The Russian Mi-8 helicopter, carrying a representative of the Sakhalin Oblast electoral commission, propagandists of 4 local television channels and 3 crew members, ran out of fuel, almost along the highway cover and mowed the trees until, when the propeller was hooked, it ended up in a ditch.
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