2000 SLAF Mi-17 crash
Sri Lanka Air Force Mil Mi-17 · Crashed into terrain due to technical failure
From Police Grounds, Bambalapitiya to Ampara Airport (ADP)
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
- 15 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Mil Mi-17
- Aircraft type
- Mil MI-17
- 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
- CH592
- Operator
- Sri Lanka Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 15
- Route
- From Police Grounds, BambalapitiyaTo Ampara Airport (ADP)
Approximate · Estimated position: Kegalle, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 16 September 2000, a Mil Mi-17 transport helicopter operated by the Sri Lanka Air Force crashed on the Urakanda mountain range near Aranayaka, in the Kegalle District, after departing Bambalapitiya Police Grounds. The helicopter was carrying Minister of Shipping, Ports and Rehabilitation M. H. M. Ashraff and 14 others. Everyone on board was killed.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 2000 SLAF Mi-17 crash
- Article
- 2000 SLAF Mi-17 crash
- Revision
- 1349737182 · 2026-04-18 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q131471109
- 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 "2000 SLAF Mi-17 crash" (page 78549851, revision 1349737182)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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.