Second Sudanese military accident in a week, this one kiling 5. Details to follow... Read more
Sudanese Air Force Mi-24 attempting to take off from the military airport in Khartoum crashed on Wednesday morning, killing one of three people on board after an engine caught fire, the army said.... Read more
B206 crashed in the town square of Dataran Sibu, just opposite a hotel where Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is due to attend a function. Sole occupant pilot Sahimi Razali died later in hospital from his injuries... Read more
Shot down by pro-Gadaffi troops. A second helicopter was also shot down and has a separate entry in HeliHub accident data... Read more
Pilot Retoreto Seriba Marcelo, 39, and passenger Adrian Rodriguez, 54, were killed in the accident.... Read more
Search for overdue helicopter found wreckage two days later. EMS operation with three killed – pilot and patient survived.... Read more
Wreckage reported 6th April. Two bodies “may have been there a week” – thus date of accident unclear... Read more
EC155 came down in wooded area of a mountainous region. Foggy conditions reported. One fatality, two injured. The three were Jesus Light, Ahmet Deniz, and Hadji Ahmed Maples.... Read more
Pilot died – later named as Adrian James Mayberry, 59, of Christchurch. The passenger was seriously injured... Read more
Engaged in external lifting work in mountainous region. No further details yet known. The pilots, identified only by their surnames Lee, 61, and Kwon, 49, died... Read more
4 died when EC135 crashed into a lake – check links for many photos and other info.... Read more
One fatality, two critical, one serious aboard USMC H-53 helicopter which came down in the sea two miles off Kaneohe Air Station. USCG and Honolulu Fire Dept helicopters attending. Fatality later named as Cpl. Jonathan D. Faircloth, 22, of Mechanicsburg, PA. Others on board were pilot Maj. Clinton J. Collins, co-pilot Capt. Kevin F. Hayles,... Read more
The Interior Ministry says six firefighters have died when their helicopter crashed in a remote region in the northeastern province of Aragon as they flew to try and put out a wildfire. The statement says a seventh crew member survived the accident and has been flown to hospital in the city of Teruel. Photos at... Read more
The Korea Forest Service helicopter carrying three crew members crashed into a reservoir in Seosan, some 277 km south of Seoul, at 6:47 a.m., a few minutes after taking off for an extinguishing operation in the nearby Mount Gaya region. Believed to be HL9449... Read more
Passenger struck fatally on head by main rotor when disembarking on sloping site. Pilot listed as Pablo Blanco Venegas... Read more
Mechanic became trapped under the sponson of a CH-53E after the landing gear collapsed when the landing-gear pin was pulled before takeoff. Marine was later named as Sgt. Alexis Fontalvo... Read more
Authorities were alerted after the non-arrival of a helicopter due from a short flight in Cumbria. Local press reports give the owner/pilot’s name as Mark Weir.... Read more
Air-to-air with FAC-4501, killing 5 in this helicopter. Air force Capt. Juan Jose Orjuela, Mexican Lt. Dante Herrera Alarcon, Lt. Manuel Alberto Cuspoca, technician John Mario Diaz Llanos and technician Felipe Pava Rodriguez were killed in the accident.... Read more
Shortly after take off from the military base of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, a door of the aircraft opened. One occupant tried to secure it, but appears to have dragged out by suction, falling into the waters of a pond. A second crew member went to assist and was also sucked out. One later died in the hospital... Read more
Only delivered within the last week, crew lost control with command centre. Some wreckage and one body found to date.... Read more
Brig. Gen. Alfredo Bocanegra Navia, the 48-year-old commander of the army’s 5th Brigade, and his aides (Lt. John Alexander Salcedo, Pvt. German Alfonso Ortiz) were traveling from brigade headquarters in Bucaramanga, Santander’s capital, to the town of Aguachica in neighboring Cesar province. Civilian pilot Jaime Landinez was also killed... Read more
The helicopter had departed from Modugno, near Bari, and was heading to Foggia. Pilot Tanzarella Antonio D’Amico, age 29, was alone... Read more
A Mil Mi-28 Night Hunter attack helicopter made a rough emergency landing in the Budyonnovsk district in Russia’s southern Stavropol territory on Tuesday, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman… Pilot died later same day in hospital... Read more
Australian pilot reported missing feared dead after helicopter crash in PNG.  It is understood the man is an experienced pilot who has been working in the mining industry for a number of years. Oil slick and floating debris reported. Update – Search for pilot Lloyd Lester has been abandoned... Read more
Crashed in mountainous region, pilot named as (José Gregorio Escalona) was killed in the impact... Read more
Crashed and burst into flames shortly after take-off at 1900hrs – after emergency landing earlier in the day (see separate incident page here) and subsequent repairs. Pilot and passenger killed.... Read more
R44 burst into flames on impact. Student pilot was taken to hospital in a critical condition with serious burns. Instructor Ivor Durham, owner and director of Newcastle Helicopters, died along with 21-year old Sam Bateman.... Read more
Helicopter crashed into unoccupied building close to an air base used for training by the Indian Army. Two killed were Major Atul Garje and Captain Bhanu Pratap Gupta... Read more
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that civilian pilot Loren Leonberger was pronounced dead at the scene of the PCSO helicopter crash near Avra Valley. Other occupants were Edwin Nettleton, 58, and Paul Panzica, 41, who were released from the hospital ahead of Larry Sayers, 64, who was seriously injured.... Read more
Loss of control due spatial orientation in limited visibility and” whiteness “of the underlying surface, not being able to continue the flight under visual flight rules, which led to reduce the uncontrolled collision with a roll and a helicopter with ice-covered surface of the lake. 1 killed, 5 injured... Read more
Pilot Dempsey Stice, 42, was found dead in the cockpit with no signs of trauma, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said. He apparently landed the helicopter safely as there was no damage to the aircraft,... Read more
Television stations cited the military as saying officials had reached the wreckage, but fog covered the area. It was a Bell UH-1 on a night training mission... Read more
EMS helicopter went town killing all four on board – named as pilot Capt. Khaled Al-Dakhil and First Lt. Mandeel Al-Subaihi, both Saudis, Egyptian doctor Amjad Al-Iraqi and Filipino nurse Rosella. Official source has said that it “crashed south of Riyadh Friday burst into flames due to the force of the impact with the groundâ€.... Read more
HeliHub.com is currently tracking news of an R44 missing in Argentina. No word in eight days is likely to lead to an incident report, hence we have opened a page for this. Pilot named as Alejandro Ferzola.... Read more
Pilot listed as Vadim Vlasenko, and the three passengers were all fashion models – 19-year-old Catherine Vetchynkina , 19-year-old Yana Bondarenko and 22-year-old Zlata Mashyrova... Read more
The accident was fatal victim Colonel Dionysos Bomfim, 65, and left the injured co-pilot Yves Monte Costa... Read more
A Puerto Rico National Guard helicopter crashed in the ocean after returning from a drug raid. Six fatalities included four from the Puerto Rico National Guard -0 Col. Victor Torres Rodriguez, Sgt. Jose Omar Sostre, Mario Torres Marin and Francisco Mujica de Leon. The Pilots were Hector Ramirez or Carlos Acevedo.... Read more
There were 15 passengers and three crewmembers aboard the helicopter. “The passengers received injuries of various degree of gravity while the crew commander was killed,”... Read more
Training accident – student seriouslyinjured, instructor killed... Read more
Solo training flight, crashed and burst into flames. Pilot named as Mohd Sukri Osman, age 31, a policeman by profession... Read more
R22 crashed in a steep sided valley while en route from Sospel to Avignon. French press named the deceased as Martin Rutty and Simon Lichtenstein... Read more
The helicopter was carrying six security officers, two inmates, an official from the country’s organized crime investigation unit, and two pilots. Local reports differ on the number of fatalities, some saying 3, others 4, others 7. Weather was apparently a factor... Read more
The helicopter had been chartered by the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes. On board was the pilot, a geologist from the General Council and an employee of the company “Heaven Climber”, specializing in work in steep areas.... Read more
Helicopter was in landing phase. 7 killed, 3 injured... Read more
Report from Israel of the death of Avi Sivan, previously a highly respected officer in the Israeli Defence Force. No other names of the other three fatalities have been released, or the circumstances of the accident.... Read more
All 12 armed forces personnel on board an IAF MI-17 helicopter were killed when it crashed minutes after take-off from Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.... Read more
Pilot was Paul Alan Beach (66) was fatally injured and passenger Steven Michael Chenoweth (53) is in serious condition. Chenoweth’s 13 year old son witnessed the crash and made the 911 call... Read more
Weather was reported as poor. The helicopter was piloted by Captains Israel Vega Castillo and Ernesto Carranza DomÃnguez, and flight technical Concepción Valdés Carrillo. Registration wrongly reported in press as XU-ANI which is not a Mexican registration (we expect XA- prefix)... Read more
Helicopter described as “ultralight” and press report states it was the first accident of this type of helicopter in Czech Republic... Read more
Pilot Russell Parker, aged 39, died in this R22 accident while mustering cattle... Read more
Two crewmembers, Captain Sabin Basnet and Engineer Purna Awale, have been killed in the crash.... Read more
Canadian-born pilot Alex Remond Claude Deur, died in the crash at Taltal, near Route 5 North in the region of Antofagasta.... Read more
Wirestrike reported. Piloted by former ABC7 pilot Rich Westra, the accident tragically killing his wife Kelly Westra.... Read more
“A Mil Mi-8 helicopter of the Federal Security Service, which crashed in bad weather in Sakhalin on Tuesday, has been found burning.”. The deceased were all Majors – Anatoly Kozlov, Artem Trushko, Alexander Sleptsov, and Mykola Dudrov... Read more
The two fatalities on a licence re-validation flight were owner Bevan Bertholdt (39) and flight instructor Boeta Austin... Read more
The helicopter was flying for the Wing County Power Line Services. 4POB, 1 fatal (later named as Gary L. Bland, 52, from Georgia) and 3 to Ruby Memorial Hospital with unknown injuries... Read more
report that they have found debris scattered over 150 meters, which would indicate, according to the two crews, a significant impact with the ground. Reports of three bodies so far located in the impact zone.... Read more
Fatalities were Charles Stisted, 47, chief executive of the Guards Polo Club at Windsor, owner Ian Wooldridge, 51 of demolition company Wooldridge Group and the pilot was Anthony Joseph Smith, a former RAF and Army pilot... Read more
** WARNING the photo in the first link contains a disturbing on-scene image **. Early reports gave a figure of 8 fatalities, but the final figure was 9 – Leonardo Andrés Pérez Arteaga, 29 (pilot), Manuel Montes RÃos Heder, 27 (co-pilot), Jonathan Gutierrez Baeza, 23, José Luis Salas Ventura, 32, Aaron Ortiz Gerardo Olvera, 26,... Read more
No emergency call made, pilot was only one on board. Ended up on a road in a very wooded area. Deceased named as Joseph Schuengel, age 47, 17 year veteran MSHP officer... Read more
Instructor Jason Wright, 29, of Bluff, and his pupil Allan Munro, 67, of Avondale, 75km north of Invercargill, were found with the submerged but intact Robinson 22 2km southeast of Colyers Island inside the harbour, ending a 24 hour search.... Read more
An explosion onboard a NATO helicopter has killed one person and wounded seven shortly after it landed at an outpost in eastern Afghanistan.... Read more
An official statement confirmed four of the deaths and said the helicopter crashed after hitting a powerline. Military sources were later advising that the accident killed at least 25 soldiers... Read more
Controlled impact into terrain, foggy conditions reported... Read more
Helicopter was involved in lifting operations when it struck a mountain ropeway... Read more
Eyewitness reported seeing smoke coming from helicopter as it was flying.... Read more
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