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Kobe's helicopter crashed for the same reason too if I'm not mistaken.
That's a tough loss for a country at war with its neighbour:

Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, responsible for the police and security inside Ukraine, would be the most senior Ukrainian official to die since the war began.
National police chief Ihor Klymenko said Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi had been killed alongside his first deputy, Yevheniy Yenin, and other officials in a helicopter belonging to the state emergency service.

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This has been an extremely tough week for Ukraine. >

Something else happened? >

The Dnipro apartment bombing. >

40 killed and over 46 still missing. >

I don’t want to sound morbid, but I heard that at least some missing are presumed to be impossible to find as they have been destroyed… that’s incredibly sad on top of the already sad situation for anybody involved. >

Thats usually what "missing" implies in extreme cases. Like that airplane crash recently. 6 people missing, they've probably suffered such horrific impacts they completely disintegrated and any pieces of them are beyond recognition >

Its unfortunately similar to 9/11. People were either crushed by thousands of pounds of debris and rubble, buried alive, or burned in the explosion. Its really sad. I hope that people in Ukraine don't need to wait years to learn what happened to their family like the people of NYC did. >

Most of the missing from that are supposedly from the rubble near the subway where temperatures would have been hot enough to cremate them according to rescuers at the time… now that’s morbid. >

I know someone who was an insurance investigator in NYC at the time. It took something like 6 weeks for the WTC debris to stabilize enough that it was safe to enter the underground carpark. In that 6 weeks he retired, he just didn't want the last thing he worked on to be identifying the cars of people who were killed that day.
Weirdly enough he said that when they did get in there the underground carpark was mostly intact and a shit load of cars were repossessed and resold. >

Non-combat helicopters and transport planes are flying very low in Kyiv and other places that are far from the fighting because of the risk of being shot down by Russian S-400s anti-aircraft missile systems in Belarus. >

Possibly. Still, maybe not the best idea to put all your eggs in one basket :( >

All your eggs in one basket.., in this economy? Absolutely not. >

Look mate, if I could afford a second basket in this economy you can be damned sure I wouldn't be taking both of them out on the town at the same time. >

It’s eggs or basket, a decision had to be made. >

I could totally digest a basket. >

I think it happened because it's really foggy these days in Brovary, the city where the chopper crashed and they were flying on a low altitude. Anyway, it is a really weird situation. I have a lot of questions. Why would they fly during a bad weather? Why was there so many government officials in one helicopter? What was the purpose of the flight in the first place? >

Sometimes you gotta fly, and in war you gotta fly low.
It’s on the pilots to tell their bosses when things get too risky, but their risk tolerance is a bit fucked up right now. War does that 🤷‍♂️ >

I mean we can speculate all we like, but it might have been as simple as they wanted to do this now to boost morale. They thought the risk was worth it for the war. >

Yep. I'm sure they 100% worked out the risk and understood what was involved. Not dismissing anything, it's a tough thing. You can be 99% sure something won't happen, but that doesn't mean that 1% won't pop up. >

Lot's of pilots push things in bad weather because it works most of the time.  I work with pilots that fly in weather that I wouldn't.  Inadvertent flight into low visibility is the #1 killer of helicopters, not something to fuck around with