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NEWS: Helicopter Crashes in Pamir Mountains - Climbers Injured

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 Jack Geldard 01 Apr 2008
A Soviet era Mi-8 helicopter owned by the state carrier Tajik Air, which was transporting eleven climbers, crashed in the Pamir mountains.

The helicopter had three crew, and a Tajik translator, and climbers from Austria, Switzerland, Russia, France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain.

Read More: http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/older.html?month=04&year=2008
 henbot 01 Apr 2008
In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC: That makes me scared. Im going to Kyrgyzstan this summer and going to be travelling on these helicopters. How often do these sorts of incidents occur?

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