Tail blades broken when they hit the rig structure when landing in high winds. Flying debris caused serious injuries to two workers on the rig... Read more
Emergency landing – due to loss of oil pressure?... Read more
13 died and 6 survived crash of Indonesian Army Mi-17. Reports of sudden gusty wind conditions on final approach to land... Read more
Inadvertently landed in a mine field. Occupants escaped unharmed but helicopter later consumed by fire.... Read more
UN helicopter developed a technical fault en route Zalingei to Nertiti, in Central Darfur. Pilot turned back to Zalingei helipad and during the emergency landing the aircraft crashed and was badly damaged. All 19 passengers and 4 crew were safely evacuated, of which three passengers suffered minor injuries... Read more
Technical issue on Presidential helicopter prevented take-off... Read more
Started to spin uncontrollably at 10m altitude. Landed heavily, and 2 of 3 POB to hospital.... Read more
Soldier abseiling down rope died after falling to the ground. Reports in subsequent days suggest the rope was intentionally cut after the helicopter suffered a major malfunction and had to make an emergency landing to save the 13 on board.... Read more
1 injured from 9 passengers and 3 crew on board.... Read more
Crashed after reported engine failure. No injuries... Read more
Crashed and consumed by fire, killing all three on board. Photos of wreckage show it half buried, implying significant vertical speed at impact.... Read more
Single engine failure. Three crew and one passenger not injured.... Read more
Shot down by Yemeni tribesmen, complaining about an oil pipeline. The helicopter crashed and all eight occupants died... Read more
Hard landing, reported as no serious injuries to 22 POB... Read more
Three serious and one minor injury to the 4 POB. Ferry flight preparing for UN operation. No UN people on board... Read more
The Mi-8 helicopter made an emergency landing and fell on its side. 17 POB of which 7 were injured.... Read more
It is though the crash was caused by human error during a particularly daring manoeuvre. 2 killed, 1 seriously injured... Read more
Loss of control due to mountain winds (according to this report), killing 23 of 28 POB. The five survivors were the three crew and two of the passengers, one a child.... Read more
Emergency landing due to weather. Later reported as typical in monsoon season... Read more
Crashed in poor weather. Vice Chairman of National Disaster Management Authority said eight bodies have been recovered and chances of any survivor among the 19 onboard were remote... Read more
helicopter experienced “mechanical problems” at altitude before descending uncontrolled on the edge of Lake Managua. Most of the wreckage entered the water where it subsequently submerged... Read more
Crashed on training flight, killing two of the four POB... Read more
Helicopter crashed into field during agricultural operations... Read more
Emergency landing on training flight due to tail rotor failure. No injuries... Read more
Helicopter with 9 persons and 2 tons of explosive... Read more
Emergency landing off airfield. 12 occupants (2x USA, 7x Turkish, 1x Russian, 2x Afghan) captured by Taliban forces, who claim to have destroyed the helicopter, which may be one of YA-KHA/B/C/D/E... Read more
Emergency landing after system malfunction... Read more
Incident summary – Oil exploration support helicopter went down, killing all on board. Initial reports vary between 13 and 14 fatalities after initial reports of 9. Some local news sources are saying it exploded in the air, 10 minutes from its destination. The helicopter was supporting work by Perenco Peru, who issued a statement saying that apart from... Read more
Rolled over onto its side on landing. The helicopter carried three crewmembers and 3.2 tonnes of building materials.... Read more
Three killed out of four on board a Russian Border Guard Mi-8 which crashed in poor visibility. A criminal investigation has been opened.... Read more
Crashed on take off for post-maintenance test flight... Read more
Crashed in mountainous area in poor weather, flying for United Nations. Photo suggests controlled flight into terrain.... Read more
Crashed from low level hover due to high winds... Read more
Crashed into the sea on an EMS mission, killing all three on board – named as Captain Yashar Ahmadov, Senior Lieutenant Rustam Rustamov and Lieutenant Bahruz Zeynalov... Read more
Emergency landing at night on snow after overheating. Stayed a while and returned to base in Zagreb. Serial 228 to be confirmed (may possibly be 226). Aircraft type is Mi-171Sh and not Mi-8 per the press reports.... Read more
Avionics problem and pilot returned to his departure point at Dudinka. Aircraft was operating a regular flight number 9356 on route Dudinka – Ust-Awam – n Volochanka. No injuries to 3 crew and 12 passengers... Read more
Force landing after being shot at by militants – photos here. The hydraulic system and genrators were damaged. 1 of the 7 POB was injured... Read more
Shot down by rebels in border region. Army itself says “emergency landing due to engine failure”... Read more
The Free Syrian Army claims to have shot down a helicopter over Mazzeh Mlitary Airport as it was shelling a residential area... Read more
Crashed shortly after take-off, killing all five on board. Three were the helicopter crew, two were ground handlers from the airport... Read more
Shot down – four Russian nationals on board all died – named later in a UN statement as Pilot in Command Ilin Sergei, Co-Pilot Abrakov Alfir, Flight Engineer Egorov Sergei and Flight Attendant Shpanov Nikolai... Read more
Heavy emergency landing, seven injured – of which two serious.... Read more
Syrian AF Mi-17 was hit by surface to air missile, continued flying but crashed minutes later. Two YouTube clips show situation – see this one first, then this one. Casualties unknown... Read more
Euro-Asia Airlines Mi-8 reported missing and not found five days later. The helicopter took off on November 24 at 08.30 to fly over the Ushara-Dostyk section of the Atasu – Alashankow oil pipeline – but did not land at Dostyk at 12.30 as expected – and crashed nr Dostyk. The helicopter had significant damages with... Read more
Emergency landing after helicopter damaged in bird strike... Read more
2 killed when helicopter crashed into forest... Read more
Turned over onto its side when landing. Beyond that, reports differ – in particular the company press release and the initial investigation reports and local press. Some say conditions were gusty, others say low visibility – one report has photo of wreckage with snow falling. Some say 17 passengers and 3 crew – of which... Read more
Syrian rebels claim to have shot down a Mi-17 helicopter... Read more
Fell onto its side while landing, killing one of the eight on board. Fatality named as Svetalana Kulishova... Read more
Helicopter shot down by missile. Casualties unknown... Read more
Emergency landing after developing mechanical problems in flight. Some passengers with minor injuries... Read more
Helicopter was seriously damaged but its 24 passengers and three crew members were safe (full manifest here)... Read more
Helicopter shot down by rebel forces, and burned out on the ground... Read more
emergency landing due to bad weather... Read more
Mountainous region, poor weather, 4 killed... Read more
Two Mi-17 helicopters hit each other on take off on a training mission from an air base near the village of Sarmat in Jamnagar district of Gujarat state. 9 killed, assumed currently as 4 in one helicopter and 5 in the other. One helicopter caught fire and completely burned out, the other did not –... Read more
Two Mi-17 helicopters hit each other on take off on a training mission from an air base near the village of Sarmat in Jamnagar district of Gujarat state. 9 killed, assumed currently as 4 in one helicopter and 5 in the other. One helicopter caught fire and completely burned out, the other did not –... Read more
Shot down by rebels... Read more
Safe landing with 16 POB plus crew after smoke was noticed in the cockpit – later discovered as the aircon unit burning out.... Read more
Crashed during a training exercise at an airfield near the capital Astana and caught fire.... Read more
Crashed from a low hover, moderate damage, no injuries... Read more
Three Mi-24 helicopters of a group of four ferrying from Uganda to Somalia impacted Mount Kenya in poor weather and in close formation – all three wrecks within 1km of each other approx 11,000ft above sea level. This helicopter completely burnt out (photo), except the last part of the tail which revealed its serial AF-808. ... Read more
Three Mi-24 helicopters of a group of four ferrying from Uganda to Somalia impacted Mount Kenya in poor weather and in close formation – all three wrecks within 1km of each other approx 11,000ft above sea level. This helicopter ended up almost completely inverted on its rotorhead in an area of long grass – photo... Read more
Three Mi-24 helicopters of a group of four ferrying from Uganda to Somalia impacted Mount Kenya in poor weather and in close formation – all three wrecks within 1km of each other approx 11,000ft above sea level. This helicopter ended up in a 45 degree left bank situation in a wooded area (photo). 7 on... Read more
Helicopter crashed while carrying out agricultural work. No further details at this time. Pilot fatally injured... Read more
Landing accident – ended up on starboard side... Read more
Badly damaged in landing in swampy area short of intended helipad landing. Three occupants injured of the 22 on board. Helicopter with 3 crew was transporting 19 oil workers to a remote field location... Read more
Military spokesman Col. Sawarmy Khalid Saad said that a technical failure caused the crash. Seven officers were killed and two others were injured. [Helicopter type assumed, not confirmed]... Read more
Mi-2 owned by Congo Interior Ministry (referred to in one report as a “police helicopter”) crashed killing Russian citizen, SP Korostel, and Belarusian citizen, MF Cherenkov. Earlier reports of 2 Ukrainians being killed were later dismissed... Read more
Reported as a test flight, but with 8 POB? Fatalities named as Major Amir Azam, Havildar Abdual Waheed, Havildar Zeeshan Haider, Naik Muhammad Imran, Sepoy Kaleem Ullah and Sepoy Noor Mustafa... Read more
Post maintenance test flight crash, major post-crash fire. 1 fatality named as Edgar Rojas Calderón. Four survivors named as as Javier Salguero Moreno; José Espinosa Cortés; Jesús Carreño Manrique; and Jhon Agudelo Castaño... Read more
Emergency landing after engine failure. 14 POB... Read more
Crashed on take off from an altitude of approx 10m on a training flight. 4 of 5 occupants killed – at least some from the Bolivian military, being trained in Venezuela. One fatality named as Col. Oscar Martinez Mora. Photo here shows the tail boom having been cut by the main rotors... Read more
After experiencing some blade damage in flight, an emergency landing was made. The impact killed pilot Rodolfo León Gavilán. The other 18 on board survived. The police had been engaged on an anti-drug trafficking mission.... Read more
Crash landed on a road during a training flight. 3 POB to hospital but not seriously injured.... Read more
