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Russian officer charged in Chechnya helicopter crash
Edited for brevity.The office of Russia's military prosecutor has filed criminal charges against an army commander stemming from the crash of a mammoth military helicopter in Chechnya last August and acknowledged that the death toll was higher than previously reported. The helicopter, a transport aircraft that was grossly overloaded with at least 147 passengers, was shot down by Chechen fighters on Aug. 19 and crashed in a minefield as it approached the main Russian military base in Chechnya, just east of Grozny. It was the single worst loss of life in Russia's second war in Chechnya, now in its fourth year. Posted by: Dar 2003-05-08 |
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