2020 Peruvian Air Force Mil Mi-17 accident
Mil Mi-17 · Accident
From Santa María de Nieva to Imaza District
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
Mil Mi-17
- Aircraft type
- Mil MI-17
- 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
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From Santa María de NievaTo Imaza District
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 first accident of the Mil Mi-17 of the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) took place on 7 July 2020, when the helicopter with tail number 664, belonging to Air Group No. 3, crashed to the ground in the department of Amazonas. The aircraft was carrying out a mission to transport food supplies of the government assistance programme Qali Warma for the population of the Awajún community as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru. All the occupants of the aircraft died in the accident: the four crew members and three suppliers who were in charge of delivering the products.
Investigation and cause
Causes
The causes of the accident are under investigation, by a board activated immediately by the FAP upon learning of the event.
The aircraft was manufactured in 1986 in the former Soviet Union, and was bought by Peru in 1992. It had received full maintenance in the Russian Federation in 2014.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Mil Mi-17 de la Fuerza Aérea del Perú de 2020” (revision 172248996, 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 Mil Mi-17 de la Fuerza Aérea del Perú de 2020
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 172248996 · 2026-02-26 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q97486205
- 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 Mil Mi-17 de la Fuerza Aérea del Perú de 2020" (page 9518294, revision 172248996), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- armed force named in the article title
- 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.