About Hind crash…. more photos
12.9.1985 crash of the Mi-24D of crew Tóth, Horák, Melíšek. After common hunt, some Cobra got the “hanging” regime across the border. The Czech and Slovak crew (Tóth is a Slovak, Horák and Melíšek are the Czechs) tried to copy the Cobra manouevre but due to – sorry I don´t know English terminology for that – leeward wind stream, too high flying level over see (it means over see in the Czech border mountains, it means too low flying level in too high mountains area) and the Hind weight contrary to Cobra, the mi-24D started to fall. The Pilot tried to push for speed the “over strained” (or what in English) Hind, but too late. The Mi-24D started to fall 3m/s and rotate to the left around own axis. The Mi-24D has crashed to the Poledník mountain, before the touch the land the technician made to open side door remembering similar crash some time ago. After crash technician had to hit the second pilot-gunner by hand during running away, because he ran in shock for help away, for help to injured pilot instantly. The pilot was injured by oxygen bottle hit. The situation was spotted by the Cobra crew all time and Czechoslovak military border snipers and observation border guard as well.But it´s not all. One hour later (sic!) the other Hind was send to same place and got the same fatal situation, but they had higher flying level and better direction (even they got worse situation), so the second Hind pilot managed to run the Hind for save speed to the valley. The first Hind pilot had to get the pensioner for heath, and the crash meant a lot of restriction for helicopter part of air force…. – of course – communistic way to resolve the problems, they didn’t know, similarly to western enemies, anything about “second flying regime” (I don’t know how to translate that).
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Your translation is good, I can understand what occurred. I appreciate your efforts in providing this information. The termination of the accident cause is likely “Settling with Power” or just being caught in a down-wash.
As always one question answered generates ten more. So! Do you have the Bort number and the Unit designation for the crashed Hind. What happened to the rest of the crew? How can I communicate directly with any of the crew members? Any other photos of the crashed Hind? The other incident mentioned “remembering similar crash some time ago” – what was the date of that event?
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