2022 Mexican Navy Black Hawk crash
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk · Unknown so far
From Valle del Fuerte International Airport (LMM) to Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico.
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
- 14 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 1
- 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
- 1
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Mexican Navy
- Onboard fatalities
- 14
- Route
- From Valle del Fuerte International Airport (LMM)To Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico.
Approximate · Estimated position: Los Mochis, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Mexican Navy Black Hawk air accident was an event that occurred on the afternoon of 15 July 2022, in which 14 agents of the Secretariat of the Navy were travelling, who allegedly took part in the capture, carried out that same day, of the drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed that the helicopter that went down that day in Sinaloa was part of the teams that were used to support the capture of the kingpin.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
SEMAR indicated that “the corresponding investigations will be carried out to determine the causes that may have led to the accident of said aircraft”.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente aéreo del Black Hawk de la Armada de México en 2022” (revision 165647586, 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
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente aéreo del Black Hawk de la Armada de México en 2022
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 165647586 · 2025-02-24 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q113115295
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente aéreo del Black Hawk de la Armada de México en 2022" (page 10286401, revision 165647586), 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
- 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 Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.