2021 Uruguayan Air Force Bell 212 crash
Bell 212 · Under investigation
From Carrasco International Airport to Rocha
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
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 4
- 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
- FAU030
- Operator
- Uruguayan Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Carrasco International AirportTo Rocha
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 2021 Uruguayan Air Force Bell 212 crash was an aviation accident that took place at 02:25 on 25 March 2021. The crashed helicopter, a Bell 212 Twin Huey belonging to the Uruguayan Air Force, had taken off from Carrasco International Airport, in the department of Canelones. Its destination was the city of Rocha and then the city of Chuy, carrying out a flight transporting a batch of 186 Pfizer vaccines for Covid-19.
The accident occurred during the course of the flight, when for unknown reasons a mechanical error occurred, which forced the pilots to make an emergency landing while the aircraft was losing height, after which the aircraft began to catch fire, resulting in total losses of both the aircraft and the vaccines it was carrying.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Bell 212 de la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya de 2021” (revision 165647563, 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 Uruguaya de 2021
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 165647563 · 2025-02-24 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q106189965
- 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 Uruguaya de 2021" (page 9842220, revision 165647563), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- 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.