MOSCOW, June 4 (RIA Novosti) - The crash of a civilian helicopter near Moscow Sunday killed one person and injured two others, among them a vice president of the Russian mobile telephone operator MTS, a law enforcement spokesman said Monday.
"The accident occurred near the village of Taraskovo, in the Kashira district near Moscow. A Robinson helicopter belonging to the Sky Vision flight instruction school crashed [at about 5:07 p.m. local time (1:07 p.m. GMT)] during a training flight," the spokesman said.
The pilot-instructor died in the hospital of his injuries, and two passengers were hospitalized. Among them was Mikhail Shamolin, director of MTS Russia's business unit, who suffered broken ribs and a concussion in the crash, the company's spokeswoman said.
Shamolin, 37, joined MTS, the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, in 2005 as vice president for sales and customer services. He was appointed to his current position in July 2006.
