2012 Colombian Air Force Bell 212 crash
Colombian Aerospace Force Bell 212 · Under investigation
From Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport (BAQ) to Juan H White Airport (CAQ)
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
- 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
- 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
- Military
Bell 212
- Aircraft type
- Bell 212
- 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
- FAC4020
- Operator
- Colombian Aerospace Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport (BAQ)To Juan H White Airport (CAQ)
Approximate · Estimated position: Sabanagrande, Atlántico, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2012 Colombian Air Force Bell 212 crash was an aviation accident that took place at 16:30 on 30 April 2012. The crashed helicopter, a Bell 212 Rapaz belonging to the Colombian Air Force, had taken off from Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport, in the city of Barranquilla. Its destination was Juan H. White Airport, located in the town of Caucasia, on a personnel transport and transfer flight to support the Nudo Paramillo Task Force.
The accident occurred in the during the course of the flight, when the aircraft suddenly plunged to the ground on the outskirts of the town of Sabanagrande, in the Atlántico Department, Colombia. The 7 members of the Colombian Air Force and the 6 members of the Colombian National Police were killed in the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Bell 212 de la Fuerza Aérea Colombiana de 2012” (revision 165699958, 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 Bell 212 de la Fuerza Aérea Colombiana de 2012
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 165699958 · 2025-02-26 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q5656098
- 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 Bell 212 de la Fuerza Aérea Colombiana de 2012" (page 5192334, revision 165699958), 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
- 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.