Landed and fell onto its side during a training flight. 2 of the 6POB injured.... Read more
Emergency landing after a technical problem, reportedly in the fuel system. Helicopter was carrying Ukraine Defense Minister Dmytro Salamatin and several officials... Read more
Crashed on take-off from Murzuq airport, landing on a rail track. Possibly due to overloading – reported as 25 POB with two injured to hospital. On board were members of the reconciliation and civil peace team including Third Deputy Prime Minister Haramain Mohammed al-Haramain, Minister of Local Government Mohammad Hashemi Harari, one of the chiefs of military... Read more
Got out of control during an anti-hijacking training session. Two army personnel injured... Read more
Two people hijacked the helicopter, forced the pilot to fly to a prison at gunpoint, and then hovered as a rope ladder was dropped town for prisoner Alexei Shestakov to escape. Prison guards shot at the helicopter in an attempt to force it to land. The aircraft was later found abandoned on the edge of... Read more
Sudanese minister of agriculture, Abdel Halim al-Mutafi, has escaped death in a crash which killed three people. He emerged almost unscathed from the mishap which took place in Sudan’s eastern state of Al-Qadarif, where an Mi-17 helicopter carrying him along with six of his aides and two Iranian investors caught fire during take-off.... Read more
A North Korean helicopter crash has killed five of the Stalinist country`s Cabinet-level officials, including Commerce Minister Kim Bong Chol... Read more
Operated by Central Asian Aviation Services on behalf of logistics company Supreme Group. 4 fatalities were nationals of Tajikistan, including the son of the deputy defense minister, and helicopter was registered there.... Read more
Crashed during humanitarian aid mission – main blades severed tail boom. 11POB all safe. Weather reported as gusty. Potential for white-out with ground snow. Another potential contributor was the changing CofG due to the aid being moved some metres forward in the minutes prior to the accident – see YouTube video... Read more
Helicopter destroyed in hangar fire along with two An-2 fixed wing aircraft. Preliminary cause given centred on welding work being done in the hangar at the time. One possible candidate for this helicopter is RA-24234 (98730691) but that is not confirmed... Read more
Went into uncontrollable spin on final approach. Hit ground and caught fire. 6POB, 1 fatal – flight engineer Igor Eroshkin... Read more
Impacted ground in fog while on low level pipeline patrol. 2POB, 1 fatal... Read more
The helicopter was doing training flights and crashed down during landing approach. All three POB killed... Read more
“An M18 helicopter crashed while landing in the region of Bandondo,”... Read more
Emergency landing... Read more
Mi-8 with 25 POB has made an emergency landing in Yamal, the Emergency Situations Ministry’s Main…... Read more
Emergency landing due Hydraulic failure... Read more
Located by emergency beacon signal. 7 POB confirmed safe and alive... Read more
Shot down by rebels of Sendero Luminoso when flying over the region of the rivers Apurimac and Ene. Two fatalities named as Lt. Col. Ernesto Vasquez Esneider Silvaand Captain Alberto Campos Vidarte Jenner... Read more
Mil8 with 9 POB made emergency landing due to technical issue. After being checked over helicopter departed later with no further issue.... Read more
Pilot lost control due to the sudden change of wind at low altitude while filming. 8POB all ok... Read more
Precautionary landing due weather... Read more
One report says 10 on board, 6 to hospital. A second report says 13 to hospital. Linked to event for launch of a cable car construction project.... Read more
Reported as a rough landing on a routine training flight – and resulted in Mi-24 fleet being suspended... Read more
Emergency landing after fire in tail.   The airfield is based to 82 Sqn which flies Alouette IIIs, and no other helicopters based. We realise other aircraft can visit, of course!... Read more
One fatality (named as Canjole Kitumba Aguinaldo) in take-off accident... Read more
Quote – The Mi-8 helicopter owned by a local air carrier crashed while landing because of engine failure. 5 POB, three crew and two passengers. Caught fire on landing, while on a radio navigation aids inspection flight. Three fatalities... Read more
At least 1 of 4 occupants killed... Read more
Transmission caught fire during landing phase, substantially damaging the helicopter. All occupants safe.... Read more
A woman passenger broke her arm but no other injuries were reported. The crash took place earlier in the day 180 kilometers from the republic’s capital Syktyvkar when the helicopter landed on rough terrain, falling on one side. There were three crewmembers and between six and 16 passengers on board, according to different sources.... Read more
The helicopter with 13 passengers and 3 crew members flew to 7.23 Moscow time from Ust-Kut on one of the drilling stations. At 2.5 kilometers from the destination helicopter made an emergency landing. According to preliminary information, there is no dead (per operator UTair – some press reports quote 2 dead)... Read more
The helicopter had flown only about 300 metres after takeoff when it crashed, killing the sole occupant pilot... Read more
Helicopter dropped external load... Read more
Take-off accident, helicopter ended up on its side... Read more
Port side engine failure 20 minutes out. Returned to airport on good engine and landed OK... Read more
Precautionary landing due to fuel leak... Read more
Helicopter ended up on its port side with the tail boom broken... Read more
5POB. Made emergency landing in wooded area after suspected engine fire which turned out to be incorrect... Read more
Landing accident with 4 POB – no injuries and only light damage to the helicopter.... Read more
Fatalities include a major, two lieutenants and two sergeants.... Read more
A Mi-2 helicopter crashed in the Stavropol Territory when it supposedly performed farm work. The pilot died, a source at the Emergencies Ministry’s regional centre said. The accident occurred in the village of Yasny at about 23:00 on Friday.... Read more
A Border Security Force helicopter crashed in Sirohi district of Rajasthan killing the pilot and three others. The helicopter crashed at 3 pm near Bahadurpura village. A team of officials from Mount Abu reached the crash site and all the bodies, which are badly burnt, have been recovered. The killed are identifed as pilot Colonel... Read more
Crashed into a tree in Paroon, Nuristan, while four helicopters were landing inside a compound of National Directorate of Security, Nuristan governor Jamaluddin Badr said... Read more
Mi-17 hit a wall and burst into flames as it was trying to land in India’s remote northeast, killing 17 people [later revised to 18 after another passenger died]. It was on a regular passenger service from Guwahati. See also HeliHub.com story on appointment of a committee of inquiry... 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
Shot down by pro-Gadaffi troops. A second helicopter was also shot down and has a separate entry in HeliHub accident data... Read more
Kenya military spokesman said “The crew was on normal routine training when it reported a mechanical problem. The crew jumped out after it touched the ground. It then burst into flamesâ€... Read more
Landed on helipad, rolled over to one side and burst into flames... Read more
Libyan Air Force helicopter shot down by rebels and fell into the sea... Read more
Mil Mi-8 helicopter made an emergency landing at Baikit Airport in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk territory after its engine malfunctioned... 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
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
Emergency landing due to engine problems. Later repaired but helicopter crashed fatally on subsequent take-off (see separate incident page here)... Read more
NATO says a coalition helicopter has landed on its side after experiencing mechanical trouble during takeoff from a military base in eastern Afghanistan. No injuries. Report from Poland quotes that “the helicopter was spinning on its axis” and fell to the ground, sustaining heavy damage.... Read more
Crashed from hovering at 5m, helicopter ended up on its side. Three occupants, one of which was hospitalized... 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
The Mi-26 chopper carrying defence personnel took off from the technical airport at Satwari and crashed within minutes of take off at 0950 hours, defence spokesperson Lt Col Viplov Nath said.... Read more
Emergency landing due to fog... Read more
Helicopter was in landing phase. 7 killed, 3 injured... 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
“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 reason for the forced landing was the increase of pressure in the oil system gearbox rotary-wing aircraft.... 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
Emergency landing shortly after taking off from Marinovka en route for Saratov... Read more
Helicopter was damaged during ground transportation at night – incident timed at 23:40 local... Read more
