List of accidents and incidents involving helicopters
Summary
This article is a list of accidents and incidents involving helicopters and which are notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia. It is grouped by the years in which the accidents and incidents occurred.
1968edit
22 May – Sikorsky S-61L N303Y, operating Los Angeles Airways Flight 841, suffers a mechanical failure in flight which allows the rotor blades to collide with the aircraft's fuselage. It crashes at Paramount, California, killing all 23 people on board.
14 August – Sikorsky S-61L N300Y, operating Los Angeles Airways Flight 417, loses a rotor blade in flight and crashes at Compton, California. All 21 people on board are killed.
14 September – Bell 212 G-BDIL owned by Bristow Helicopterscrashes while on a nighttime search and rescue mission in the North Sea, killing all six crew members on board.
18 June – Bell 206 N6TC of Helitech collides with Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6 in mid-air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States. All five people on board are killed, as are all twenty people on board the de Havilland Twin Otter that it collided with.
20 November – A Mil Mi-8 belonging to the Azerbaijani Government is shot down by the Armenian military during the Nagorno-Karabakh War and crashes near Karakend. All 22 people on board are killed.
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28 January – An Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 is shot down near Shusha by Armenian forces. All 44 people on board are killed.
8 September – Eurocopter AS332L Super Puma LN-OPG operating Helikopter Service Flight 451 suffers a mechanical failure and crashes into the Norwegian Sea. All twelve people on board are killed.
23 August – A CHC Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma Mk 2 crashes into the sea 2 nm from Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands, Scotland while en route from Borgsten Dolphin oil platform. The accident kills four of the passengers; twelve other passengers and two crew were rescued.
On 8 May 2015, a Pakistan Army Mi-17 crashes near the Naltar area of Gilgit in Gilgit-Baltistan, killing the Norwegian and Philippine ambassadors and the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors. Two Army pilots, Major Al-Tamash and Major Faisal, are also killed. The Polish and Dutch ambassadors are injured.[5]
26 January – A Sikorsky S-76 helicopter carrying retired basketball player Kobe Bryant, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria "Gigi" Bryant, crashes outside of Calabasas, California, killing all nine on board.
5 March – A Robinson R44 helicopter carrying Botswana musician Sasa Klaas, crashes in the outskirts of Xumabee near Sojwe. Klaas is killed, but the pilot survives.[8]
^11 ARM soldiers die in copter crash near Katlanovo Macedonian Information Agency.
^Macedonian helicopter crash kills 11 by Ognen Teofilovski. The Age. 13 January 2008.
^"Glasgow helicopter crash: Nine dead at Clutha pub". BBC News. 30 November 2013.
^"Glasgow helicopter crash: ninth body recovered". BBC News. 2 December 2013.
^Web Desk (8 May 2015). "Norway, Philippines ambassadors among 8 killed in Gilgit helicopter crash". The Express Tribune. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^Ramirez, Domingo (6 July 2016). "Bell helicopter crashes in Ellis County, two reportedly killed". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^Laflin, Nancy (19 January 2018). "Zimbabwe opposition leader among 5 killed in Raton helicopter crash". KOAT. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
^"Botswana Mourn Sasa Klass". Botswana Youth Magazine. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
^"French MP and billionaire Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash". BBC. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
^"Chopper Crash: IAF confirms the death of CDS Bipin Rawat, wife and 11 others". The Probe. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
^"Ukraine crash: Ministers killed as helicopter comes down near nursery". BBC News. 18 January 2023. Archived from the original on 18 January 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
^Ives, Mike; Gross, Jenny (30 March 2023). "9 Soldiers Killed After Army Helicopters Collide Over Kentucky". New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2023.