Eurocopter AS 355 NP crash in Pastavy District
Unknown · Crash into the ground
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
- Government
Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Viliejty, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The crash of the Belarusian border guards' Eurocopter AS 355 NP helicopter occurred on 20 October 2011 near the Belarusian–Lithuanian state border. As a result, 5 people were killed — 2 crew members and 3 journalists of the TRA «Soyuz».
The helicopter of the State Border Committee of Belarus was performing a scheduled flight to guard the state border. At 15:45 the helicopter fell and caught fire 800 m from the village of Vileity in Pastavy District, Vitebsk Region, about a kilometre from the Belarusian–Lithuanian border.
On board were two crew members and a film crew of the TRA «Soyuz» — five people in total. Killed were the two pilots, Ihar Skvartsou and Andrei Piakarski, and the journalists Yuliya Shaternik, Vital Prachkouski and Siarhei Shamalau, who were making a special report from the border.
Category:October 2011
Category:Events of 20 October
Category:Disasters of 2011
Category:History of Pastavy District
Category:Aviation accidents in Belarus
Category:2011 in Belarus
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Belarusian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Eurocopter AS 355 NP на Пастаўшчыне” (revision 4626444, 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
Belarusian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Eurocopter AS 355 NP на Пастаўшчыне
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 4626444 · 2023-11-18 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q6499988
- 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
- be Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Eurocopter AS 355 NP на Пастаўшчыне" (page 628738, revision 4626444), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): The helicopter belonged to the State Border Committee of Belarus on a border patrol flight: a border guard, i.e. government, operation. The article: "The helicopter of the State Border Committee of Belarus was performing a scheduled flight to guard the state border."
- 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 Belarusian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.