Attorney General's Office Schweizer 333 crash
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic Schweizer 333 · Manoeuvring error
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
- 2 · 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
- Government
Schweizer 333
- Aircraft type
- Schweizer 333
- 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
- XC-DAF
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Chihuahua City, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The air accident of the Schweizer 333 of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic took place on 18 November 2008, after the crash of the Schweizer 333 aircraft north of the City of Chihuahua, Chihuahua; the helicopter's pilot and an agent of the Federal Preventive Police died in the mishap. The crash occurred after the pilot made manoeuvres for the descent. The aircraft became entangled in some high-voltage cables and crashed; the accident happened at around half past twelve in the afternoon, on the Chihuahua-Ciudad Juárez highway. The two-seat aircraft was to take part in a preventive surveillance patrol within the Joint Operation Chihuahua, with personnel from the Mexican Army and the state and municipal police.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente aéreo del Schweizer 333 de la Procuraduría General de la República” (revision 172780108, 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 Schweizer 333 de la Procuraduría General de la República
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 172780108 · 2026-04-01 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q5656122
- 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 Schweizer 333 de la Procuraduría General de la República" (page 2069872, revision 172780108), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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): A helicopter of Mexico's Attorney General's Office on a surveillance patrol with a federal police agent: a government flight. The article: "The air accident of the Schweizer 333 of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic took place on 18 November 2008"
- 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.