Shootdown of the Yemeni military Mil Mi-17 aircraft
Mil Mi-17 · Shootdown
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
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Yemeni military
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The shootdown of the Yemeni military Mil Mi-17 aircraft occurred when it came under fire on 6 August 2013 from tribal gunmen accused of blowing up oil pipelines in the Al-Arqain area of Wadi Abidah District in Marib Governorate; it was a Mil Mi-17 model. The incident resulted in the death of Brigadier General Hussein Mash'aba, commander of the 107th Infantry Brigade tasked with protecting the oil wells, and seven of his companions, in addition to the aircraft's crew of 3 members.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Arabic Wikipedia article “إسقاط طائرة ميل-مي 17 العسكرية اليمنية” (revision 71658735, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Arabic Wikipedia article: إسقاط طائرة ميل-مي 17 العسكرية اليمنية
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 71658735 · 2025-08-09 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q15954695
- 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
- ar Wikipedia article "إسقاط طائرة ميل-مي 17 العسكرية اليمنية" (page 1745946, revision 71658735), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Arabic Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.