OREANDA-NEWS. August 3, 2010. captain of UTair Aviation’s Mi-8MTV RA-25829 helicopter Evgeniy Mostovshikov, arrested on July 26 on scheduled aircraft site after landing in Abodzho, Sudan, as a result of work jointly carried out by representatives of Russian Embassy in Sudan, the United Nations and Sudanese authorities was released and taken to the Nyala airfield. The captain is not injured, now he is in the UN mission’s arrangement in Nyala.

UTair provides transportation support to peacekeeping missions of the United Nations since 1991 and is the largest provider of helicopter services to the UN. The airline under the contract carries out medical and emergency evacuation of wounded and sick, provides search and rescue operations and also carries freight, passenger and VIP-transportation.

In 2010 UTair serves UN peacekeeping missions in Sudan, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as the territories of Nepal and Afghanistan. In particular more than 250 highly qualified UTair specialists work in Sudan; 24 helicopters hold operations (Mi-8T, Mi-8MTV, Mi-171/Mi-8AMT and Mi-26).