2020 ROCAF UH-60M crash
Republic of China Air Force Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk · Pilot error due to inclement weather
From Taipei Songshan International Airport (TSA) to Dong'aoling Radar Station, Su'ao, Yilan County, Taiwan
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 13
- Survivors
- 5
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 5
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
- Aircraft type
- Sikorsky UH-60
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 933
- Operator
- Republic of China Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Taipei Songshan International Airport (TSA)To Dong'aoling Radar Station, Su'ao, Yilan County, Taiwan
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 2 January 2020, a Black Hawk helicopter of the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) Air Rescue Group crashed in the Wulai District of New Taipei, Taiwan, while executing a VIP transport mission. General Shen Yi-ming, Republic of China's Chief of the General Staff (CGS), along with seven other personnel on board, died in the accident.
Accident
The Black Hawk was taking off for a routine mission to visit service personnel in Dong'aoling Radar Station, Su'ao, Yilan county. The helicopter lost contact with Songshan Air Base at 8:07 AM, thirteen minutes after taking off and crashed into a mountainside.
General Shen Yi-ming, Chief of the General Staff, was on board the helicopter along with seven other officers and a senior enlisted adviser from the General Staff Headquarters, Ministry of National Defense (MND-GSH), a military correspondent, and three crew members. Shen and seven others including two Major Generals were killed, while five others were injured.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
During a news conference on 2 January, General Hsiung Hou-chi, Commanding General of the Air Force, stated that the government had set up a task force to investigate the cause of the accident. The flight recorders of the aircraft were recovered on 3 January and sent to the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board. Proprietary hardware within the flight recorders were delivered to Sikorsky Aircraft.
On 21 July 2020, the Control Yuan announced that Jen I-wei and Chou Shih-kai, both of whom were posted to the Air Force Weather Wing's No. 8 Base at the time of the accident, had been impeached. It was reported in January 2022 that the Judicial Yuan's Disciplinary Court had barred Jen from working in the public sector for two years. No penalty was issued to Chou, due to insufficient evidence against him.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 2020 ROCAF UH-60M crash
- Article
- 2020 ROCAF UH-60M crash
- Revision
- 1339315535 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q80649403
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2020 ROCAF UH-60M crash" (page 62718970, revision 1339315535)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.