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Khankala attack
On August 19, 2002, a Russian-made Igla shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile hit an overloaded Mi-26 helicopter, causing it to crash in a minefield and burn down at the main military base at Khankala near the capital city of Grozny, Chechnya. A total of 127 Russian Army troops and crew from the Russian Air Force base at Mozdok were killed in the crash, the greatest loss of life in the history of helicopter aviation and one of the worst disasters in Russian military history.
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