Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned that the remains of the crew members of the Armenian helicopter, which Azerbaijan had shot down, have been handed to their relatives.
We have learned that two crewmen were burnt; the remains of the two pilots were handed to their relatives, and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan’s dead body was transferred to his family.
The funeral service for the three fallen Armenian pilots will be conducted in accordance with military protocol.
The remains of these three military servicemen were removed from the crash site through a special operation by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) armed forces.
The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire and shot down an NKR Air Force helicopter on November 12. The chopper was downed during a training flight, and it crashed very close to the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact. As a result, three pilots were killed: the commander of the helicopter, Major Sergey Sahakyan, as well as Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan. The adversary, on the other hand, was firing intensive shots toward the crash site, thus, not allowing access to the area.