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Since 2016, there have been six air accidents involving MI17 helicopters attached to Army Aviation, a worrying figure considering that in these emergencies more than 20 people have died between military and civilians, but BLU Radio learned that much of the investigations for these accidents have already been filed.
Sources consulted by BLU Radio said that investigations into five of the six accidents that have occurred during the last four years in Colombia concluded that the main cause was due to environmental factors, such as, for example, the weather condition that in some cases would have triggered that the crew will make bad decisions about the aircraft.
According to the institution, this situation cannot be taken as a human error but as an instinct reaction , and although some questions about the practical, theoretical and simulator training that the MI17 helicopter pilots receive are around.
“The people who drive these helicopters are absolutely suitable people, they are divinely prepared and those accidents have been under investigation, but to say one that is lack of pilot training, has no grip on reality,” Guillermo Botero told BLU Radio, Minister of Defense.
The truth is that the disciplinary, administrative and legal investigations that took place in these six air accidents of Russian MI17 helicopters of the National Army ruled out that human and mechanical failures had occurred.
Source: Bluradio
