While traveling through the frozen wastes of Kazakhstan, a Mi-8 gunship pilot got lost and did what anyone else would do without a working GPS, he stopped and asked for directions.
After landing in the middle of the road, the pilot runs up to a nearby truck driver who stopped for the heavily armed aircraft. The driver’s partner in a second vehicle managed to capture the whole thing on video, but couldn’t hear the conversation over the heavy wind.
After the pilot ran off, the cameraman radioed to the other driver to ask what all the fuss was about. RT translated the following exchange.
Cameraman: “What the f**k is he doing? He is just sitting there in the middle of the road?!”
Driver: *laughing* “They were lost!” *more laughter* “He came to ask which way to Aktobe!”
Cameraman: “How can you get lost in the steppe? How the hell can you get lost in the steppe?”
The thankful pilot returned to his aircraft, revved up the engine, and took off into a blinding snow storm. After the video went viral the Kazakhstan Ministry of Defense released a statement explaining that the pilot was a trainee conducting a “planned visual orienteering exercise,” and that “the helicopter has now returned to the airfield where it is based.”