2002 Tunisian military helicopter crash
Tunisian Air Force UH-1 Iroquois · Crash
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
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- 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
UH-1 Iroquois
- Aircraft type
- Uh IROQUOIS
- 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
- Tunisian Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- 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 2002 Tunisian military helicopter crash was the crash of a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter belonging to the Tunisian Air Force on 30 April 2002, which claimed the lives of 13 military personnel, among them the Chief of Staff of the Land Forces, Abdelaziz Skik. The investigations stated that a technical fault was the cause of the crash; however, the hypothesis of deliberate killing and a conspiracy by the regime emerged following the Tunisian Revolution in 2011, after the fall of the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Arabic Wikipedia article “حادث سقوط المروحية العسكرية التونسية 2002” (revision 69522930, 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: حادث سقوط المروحية العسكرية التونسية 2002
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 69522930 · 2025-02-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q28843254
- 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 "حادث سقوط المروحية العسكرية التونسية 2002" (page 3461327, revision 69522930), 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; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: total_fatalities
- 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.