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Attorney General's Office Schweizer 333 crash

18 Nov 2008 · Km 38 of Federal Highway 45, Chihuahua, Chihuahua.

Office of the Attorney General of the Republic Schweizer 333 · Manoeuvring error

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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
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
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.