MOSCOW. Aug 22 (Interfax-AVN) - Nine servicemen who had been seriously injured in the MI-26 Halo helicopter crash in Chechnya were airlifted to Moscow by a special plane late on Wednesday, Major General Viktor Gulyayev, deputy head of the Defense Ministry's main military medical department, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"Nine servicemen seriously injured in the MI-26 helicopter crash near Khankala were delivered from Chechnya to Moscow by a special plane at about 6:00 p.m. on August 21. Five of them were put in the Burdenko central military hospital and four more in the Sklifasovsky first aid institute," Gulyayev said.
The injured servicemen are getting required medical aid, and "their lives are out of danger," he stressed.
The rest of the injured people are in a hospital in Rostov-on- Don. Colonel Sidelnikov, head of the thermal injury clinic, has been dispatched there to provide aid to the affected servicemen. The colonel "has a huge experience in treatment of burns," Gulyayev said.