2025 Colombian National Police Black Hawk shootdown
National Police of Colombia Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk · Possible explosive device in the landing zone
From an unrecorded airport to Deployment of CANCI 17-PECAT personnel for illicit crop eradication activities
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
- 4
- 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
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
- PNC-0634
- Operator
- National Police of Colombia
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From not recordedTo Deployment of CANCI 17-PECAT personnel for illicit crop eradication activities
Approximate · Estimated position: Amalfi, Antioquia, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The National Police Black Hawk shootdown was a premeditated attack on a helicopter of the National Police of Colombia, which occurred on 21 August 2025. The aircraft was hit by an explosive device while carrying out illicit crop eradication operations in the vereda of Los Toros, jurisdiction of Amalfi, Antioquia.
It was confirmed that the attack was carried out by means of a landmine activated during the landing.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Derribo del Black Hawk de la Policía Nacional de Colombia de 2025” (revision 174398579, 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: Derribo del Black Hawk de la Policía Nacional de Colombia de 2025
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 174398579 · 2026-07-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q135922240
- 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 "Derribo del Black Hawk de la Policía Nacional de Colombia de 2025" (page 11286465, revision 174398579), 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 a government agency 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.