UN Rescue Mission, Shooting and Helicopter Helphe

Captain Sergius of music, who began his career in the Soviet army, never dreamed that his final deployment, before heading for retirement after 43 years of piloting helicopters, played as a movie for Tom Cruise.

The 60-year-old Ukrainian found himself in a terrifying and deadly situation in South Sudan, when what looked like a routine UN operation earlier this month became the most dramatic of his career.

During his military service – which included 20 years in the Ukrainian army – he served in Afghanistan and other dangerous places. He also met with other dangerous areas during his work as a private contractor, including the rescue of victims of a plane crash in Somalia in 2015.

But the mission of evacuating wounded soldiers from a military base in Nasir in the northern state of South Sudan in the upper Nile is its most memorable.

A shooting at the base, after arriving, eventually claimed the life of a crew member and those of more than two dozen soldiers in South Sudan on Earth.

He himself was shot in his hand, miraculously managed to rise and direct the damaged helicopter to safety.

A small clip, which he shot on his phone from the inside of the cockpit, showed him bloody, close controls covered with blood and windshield, broken while he and his pilot flew low over Scrubland for nearly an hour to the nearest airport.

It was “like a movie,” he admitted at the BBC – apparently still shaken by events.

“I thought it happened in a dream,” added the pilot, who works for a company called Ukrainian helicopters.

On the day of the shooting, the company was agreed by the UN mission to South Sudan for the evacuation of six injured soldiers, one of whom was a general, along with two of his negotiators.

UN peacekeepers are trying to protect a peaceful deal that breaks down at the ends, with Warnings that the world’s most in the world is about to immerse itself in another civil warS

The first to break out three years after independence, lasted five years and killed nearly 400,000 people.

He lifted President Salva Kiir against Vice President Rick Machar – with any support of their ethnic groups from their respective ethnic groups.

The couple agreed to end the war in 2018 – and one of the goals of their deal to share power was to join their rival forces and create a united military.

But the latest clashes in Nasir County reveal the distrust of slow progress in this.

The area is the place where the militia known as the White Army is founded – its recruits are fighting in support of the Machar during the Civil War.

The communities there trust regular army troops, which are regarded as loyal to Cyrus and call for the deployment of the united force.

But last month, more regular soldiers were sent to the area than the army – the Machar move said it was a violation of the cessation of the fire and the transitional transaction – and the tension flared.

The Ciir country said the decision was a routine rotation of the troops, but the situation quickly deteriorated when the White Army took over the Army base on March 4.

This is when Captain Music and his team were called to go out in closed soldiers.

They had already made one trip – on March 6 – they successfully extracted 10 people after landing at a certain point that the UN used.

The next day they returned – and everything went as planned until the passengers began to get on.

The shooting started and in confusion it was difficult to say what was going on.

The first Captain music knew that something serious was wrong, was when he saw that the blood was pointing from his left hand.

Then his flight attendant Sergius Priidko – who stood in front of the UN Chief Negotiator – was shot dead.

Captain Music knew they were under attack, and his military preparation kicked: “The shooting started in front and right and then on the left. I immediately take a take -off.”

As he lifted, he said he saw soldiers falling on the ground in front of the plane.

“I couldn’t say exactly what time we spent (between the start of the shooting and the take -off) – maybe a small part of a second.”

The helicopter frame continued to hit as it was in the air, the fuel tanks were drilled.

They had to reach the airport in the regional capital Malacal, which was an hour away, and things didn’t look good in the cockpit.

“Some systems were damaged – like the main gearbox,” he said.

The possibility of the crash was always present during the flight. So Captain music decided to fly as quickly and low as possible.

“The oil temperature was (in) critical – maximum and I flew 100 m (328 feet) above ground level.”

Thus, according to his calculations, he could make an emergency landing within 20 seconds.

He also asked his crew to be alert for meadows – without trees and shrubs – only if a person is needed.

Meanwhile, the flying engineer stopped bleeding the captain’s hand using his shirt as Torniquet.

In the video, the torn shirt can be seen tied just above the elbow – the blood was on his lower hand, pants and sprayed from his place.

The footage also shows a trickle of blood clotting to his forehead before being borne to the crew member without a shirt and a pilot, which was also injured.

He was experiencing pain on his right, said Captain Music.

“Fortunately, it was a little injury from plastic fever from the right window.”

When they finally approached Malacal Airport, they experienced more difficulties. The front wheel of the helicopter was blocked after during the attack.

Nevertheless, Captain music managed to successfully land 49 minutes after flying under fire and with more than 20 firearms on his body.

“It was a great relief,” he told the BBC.

It was at this point that he felt some pain from his injury. It was so surreal that you thought “maybe I sleep.”

During a military pilot, he said that in 1987 he was attacking – in Afghanistan in 1987: “I saw a few bullets that pass through my blades during the night flight. And that’s it.”

The crew and passengers received medical attention as soon as they reached Malacal.

However, it was not possible to save the 41-year-old Mr Prykhodko, who died of his injuries.

“We couldn’t believe it,” the captain said.

Later, the Ukrainian crew of helicopters was full at a ceremony where they were awarded the UN medal for honor. The UN Mission Head said the attack “may be a war crime under international law”.

It was difficult for the crew to accept the loss of his colleague – and the incident added to his concerns about relatives at home, who were attacked by Russian forces.

Capt Muzyka has already returned to Ukraine for treatment and see his family.

He hopes for the future that “common sense will prevail in the world”, and although he knows that retirement is on cards, he still feels young “because I can fly.”