According to preliminary data, there were four people aboard the helicopter. Svetlana Rybalko, the spokesperson for the State Emergency Situations Service of the Poltava region, reported that the Mi-8 of Ukrainian Helicopters carried out a training flight with students.
On this day they passed a flight preparation system with a night vision device.
For this purpose, three crews arrived in Kremenchuk for training and they had to fly for ten hours at night.
The accident occurred about seven o'clock in the evening. At the same time after the crash in some areas of Kremenchug, electricity was lost.
Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in the city of Kremenchuk, Poltava region, a Mi-8 helicopter crashed. According to preliminary data, the machine touched the transmission line. The helicopter is private, it carried out a training flight.