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2026 Qatar Air Force NHIndustries NH90 crash

22 Mar 2026 · Persian Gulf.

Qatar Emiri Air Force NHIndustries NH90 · Technical failure

From Doha Qatar to an unrecorded destination

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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
7 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
0
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
0
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

NHIndustries NH90

Aircraft type
Nhindustries NH90
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
Onboard fatalities
7
Route
From Doha QatarTo 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 air crash of the Qatar Air Force NHIndustries NH90 helicopter, which was carrying out a joint operation with Turkey, went down on 22 March 2026, according to the Qatari interior minister, in Qatari waters in the Persian Gulf, without the point where it fell having been specified so far.

The aircraft was carrying Turkish and Qatari citizens, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defence of Turkey.

Among the victims are four Qatari military personnel, a Turkish soldier and two technicians from the arms company Aselsan, owned by the Turkish Army.

Official sources attributed the accident to a technical failure during a night training flight. The Qatari interior ministry also confirmed the deployment of several specialised teams to the crash area for rescue tasks.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del NHIndustries NH90 de la Fuerza Aérea de Catar de 2026” (revision 173643378, 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 del NHIndustries NH90 de la Fuerza Aérea de Catar de 2026
Article
Accidente del NHIndustries NH90 de la Fuerza Aérea de Catar de 2026
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
173643378 · 2026-05-26 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q138766878
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 del NHIndustries NH90 de la Fuerza Aérea de Catar de 2026" (page 11463654, revision 173643378), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
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Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
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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.