Chillybean
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Here's an incident I had the misfortune to witness off Korsakov in Sakhalin Island, It was a joint air sea rescue between the Russians and the Japanese. The Helicopter in question is adapted to allow it to take off from open water, having just lifted off it crashed back down breaching the hull. Had the pilot cut the engines it would have floated on its airbags sadly it looked as if he was attempteing to take off again. The video says only one died but there were rumours of 3 fatalities. The Mil14 helicopter had flown earlier from the same airbase that the SU15 fighter was scrambled to take down flight KAL007 . The same SU15 aircraft in 2006 at the time of this video was a museum peace in Yuzhno Sakhalin's capital.. only in Russia.